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July 27, 1953: The End

It’s finally over. After so many deaths and so much destruction, a cease-fire has been signed. Technically, this doesn’t mean an end to the war between North and South Korea, but we’ll take whatever we can get at this point. At the end, 53,000 ROK and UN troops have been killed, including over 8,000 Americans, but the sad part is more than half of them were killed AFTER peace talks had begun (Evanhoe). A large amount of MIA’s and casualties came from North Korean concentration camps used to contain the POWs, with a large amount of those deaths suspected to be murders. At lease now the press can’t give us any new grief about goings on in the war, and I can go home to my family.

April 20-26, 1953: Peace Talks Resume

Peace talks are underway again, and I personally think that this will be the final set of meetings that are needed for this war. Sick and wounded POWs are beginning to be exchanged, and I am sure as hell happy to see these American boys getting out of there alive. Hopefully these peace talks are signaling the end of the war, but you never really know what these communists are up to. One minute, talks of peace and cease-fires are on the table, but the next they’ve cut off all peace communication and have launched another attack on our troops. We can’t afford to lose many more American lives to this war, our citizens are just getting over the losses of World War II and now this? I pray this will end soon.

Image Caption: Peace Talks Continue in Kaesong. http://www.awesomestories.com/assets/peace-talks-at-kaesong

January 25, 1953: Operation SMACK

The media is at it again. This morning, the 31^st marines attacked an enemy stronghold nicknamed “spud hill” in an operation dubbed “SMACK”. We thought that the operation was going to be a cakewalk of a victory, but we were unfortunately proven quite wrong. Despite heavy armor and air support, the 31^st was driven back with heavy casualties. The worst part of it is, this new reporter showed up here to cover the assault, and we’re now being accused of just throwing the 31^st into combat and disregarding all of the lives lost just to put on a show for some brass visiting from back stateside. This is the kind of skewed journalism that can ruin our reputation not only as a military, but as an entire country. This young man has no idea what he could have possibly started with that article, what kind of alliances could crumble from those false reports. God help us all if they do…

November 18, 1952: POW Olympics?

I’ve just received some oddly disturbing news from some released American prisoners of war. The communists are trying to stage some sort of POW Olympics (Evanhoe). I mean I’ve heard strange things about the communists before, but this? This is just too strange for words. There are several speculations going around headquarters about what they could possibly be up to, but nobody is really sure what the answer actually is. The speculation that I find to be most accurate is the theory that the communists are trying to make it seem like the POWs are so happy to be in this “North Korean paradise” that it makes North Korea look like their saviors instead of their captors. These happy go lucky Olympics are unfortunately a façade, as we have knowledge that behind the mask of these sick games, American POWs are being tortured and murdered by their so called “saviors” from North Korea.

Image Caption: An American POW is killed in a concentration camp in North Korea. http://b-29s-over-korea.com/POWs-In-Korean-War/images/American%20POW%20executed%20in%20Korea.jpg

August 29, 1952: Misfire

The news I have just received is awesome. Awesome in the sense of “God has awesome power”. A 1400 plane bombing raid was authorized and executed today on the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The city has been almost entirely obliterated by U.S. bombing, and the civilian casualty count is unknown at this time, but is estimated to be very high. Desperation is beginning to become clearer as we continue on with this war. This kind of destruction is beyond describing with words, and now I have to figure out how to tell the American people that we bombed a city full of millions of innocent civilians. This REALLY isn’t going to go over well with them. I’ll let the press coverage speak for itself on this one.

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June 23, 1952: Bombings

Bombing of North Korean defensive and strategic positions and cities has always been decent, standard targets under the rules of engagement, but now North Korean power plants, including dams and Nuclear power plants has been authorized. This must mean we’re getting desperate, looking to hit them where it really hurts. Confidence and morale is beginning to fall, and we’re not sure how much longer we can continue to fight this war. The bombings caused harsh retaliation by the Chinese forces in Korea, being treated with a special kind of brutality in communist POW camps. The largest percentage of our missing in action troops are airmen and the bombings are hurting the Korean people, not the communist Russian supply factories or the Chinese troops that are on the ground. I am starting to fear that this bombing raid is being done strictly for morale, instead of being strategic in nature.