Even North Korea propaganda can work if there is even a smidgen of truth behind it.
“This is how Americans live today. Drinking coffee from snow and living in tents and buying guns to kill each other and their children. Some people complain about the guns.”
Dennis Rodman says he is returning soon to North Korea to visit his “new friend” Kim Jong Un. I hope he makes it before it all goes KABOOM.
I spent a year 100 meters from the markers separating North and South Korea. It was during the Pueblo Crisis and it was high alert every day. I can just imagine what our troops in the same fox holes today are going through this week with North Korea voiding the armistice and threatening nuclear war. One thing all of us on the DMZ knew then and those there know now is that if war breaks out, no matter how it goes or who wins, we would be run over and dead in a few hours.
Being there for 13 cold miserable months gives me a nasty spin on it. Let's have at it, kick their ass and be done with that crazyass place once and for all. Bring our 30,000 guys home from that horrid place. You know, about all I remember from that worst year of my life is, “fivedolla shortime cando.”
You know what my two biggest jobs were on my 5 days back in rotation from the DMZ? Rounding up local whores for penicillin shots and counseling enlisted men not to marry them and bring them home. When I got back to the REAL WORLD I could find no job that fit either of those work descriptions. Nor could I find a job amassing artillery fire upon large groups of people. So I went to college and majored in politics and beer. I did well at both.