1 I know about this one very well. Very well.

2 The survivors are known as the Chosin Few.

The rifle range at Parris Island is known as the Chosin Range.

3 My respect for the men and women of our Armed Forces knows no bounds. I'm so fucking sorry we haven't done better by you.

4 God bless the Marines.  Semper Fi.

5 Truman was a fucking pussy.  One bomb, done.  Thousands died because he was a typical democrat.

May he roast in hell. 

McArthur would have finished this ASAP.  Pussy Truman fired him.

Fuck Truman!  Let me say that again, FUCK TRUMAN.

6 ahhh, yes, the frozen Chosin I mentioned this a few months ago and got every single detail wrong.

7 ONT up

8 Met a bunch of these guys, and Hector Cafferata lives around here somewhere. My FIL knows him.

9 Amazing and inspiring! Thanks for this. I don't know my unit history well enough, but wasn't 1MarDiv comprised mainly of reserves at that point? Guys who not long before had been stockbrokers, salesmen, clerks, carpenters? The individual unit commanders were made of very stern stuff. Are we, as a nation, putting men like that out in as great a number today? Every year, at Ft. Snelling national Cemetery, I stand as the remaining Chosin Few march with the colors on Memorial Day. God bless them! For any Commie-fag-junkies that might see this, are you ready to pay any price and bear any burden to do the right thing?

10 @5 Truman lost China. L'il Barry lost the Maghreb + Misir/Aegyptus.

11 Semper Fi, Cpl Kidd.

12 Truman lost China. L'il Barry lost the Maghreb + Misir/Aegyptus.

Posted by: Thorvald at November 07, 2012 09:19 PM (1V6Pv)

Barry didn't lose it. He gave it away

13 Thank you, SOLDIER,  seems much to inadequate.  So I'll just stick to, "GOD Bless you, Sir!

14 Retreat, hell! We're not retreating. We're just advancing in a different direction.

15 My wife's grandfather and father were West Point grads. She and her mother, brother and sister lived in Japan while her father fought in Korea.

16

"and got to chat up some cute young Scandi chicks (sub-clade: Finnish)."

 

Finns aren't Scandinavian, geographical location notwithstanding.  Language and cultural background/migrations are unrelated.  The Scandinavians are Danes, Norwegians and Swedes. 

 

You may include Finland and Iceland as Nordic, but not Scandinavian.

17

3d Infantry Division NOT 3d Marine Division.  3d Marine Division was deactivated in 45 and not reactivater until 52

Semper Fi

Bob

18 Doh!  Thanks Bob, I corrected

19 Greetings: Since the analog-to-digital TV signal conversion, I've been watching a fair amount of the (South) Korean Broadcasting System's "KBS World" programming. One evening, I channel surfed into a program about the work the Korean government is still doing to recover the bodies of its soldiers and those of its allies. The program also mentioned a Korean government program that offers scholarships for college study in Korea for the descendants of foreign soldiers who were killed during the war. It may not be a whole lot, but then I'm a bit of a sucker for expressions of gratitude.

20

Today we honor our veterans of all wars.  I say God Bless you and Thank You.  My father was a Marine in the 1st. Marine Division who fought in the Chosin Reservoir.  He passed away in Feb. 2010.  I honor him today with all our veterans. He did not speak much about the Chosin Reservoir battle, only to say they marched in the cold up a mountain road and while they marched up, trucks were coming down filled with dead soldiers.  He was barely 17 and my Grandmother had to sign for him to enlist.  He told me you can not imagine what it was like to see those trucks coming down filled to the top and knowing that is where he was headed.  I have original pictures of the war and wish I could find out more info on my fathers' history of all the battles he was in during his service in the Korean War. He has battle ribbons that we have kept and sad to say I know very little about them.  He would not talk about it. My father lost close friends in the war and I could see the hurt in his face when he spoke of them.  I miss him, my Marine Father who went to War for our Freedoms we so cherish today.  I salute you Dad and all who served so bravely for this country! 

21

Great post and video.

I have the Marines and the Army covered at the Chosin Reservoir.

My father was with the First Marines, 2nd Battallion, Fox Company and served as a BAR Man in the Battle of Inchon, Battle for Seoul, and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Chesty Puller was my father's Regimental Commander, and my father had the honor of meeting him twice on the front lines of the battlefield.

My Uncle served in the Army (Task Force Faith) and was all the way up at the Yalu river at the Chines border. He experienced some of the worst fighting and weather conditions imaginable, where pratically his entire unit was anniliated, and he was very lucky he came out alive.

The whole time they were both in Korea they kept trying to find each other. My Uncle finally did come through my Fathers unit, and was told my father was dead from a mortar wound. After breaking down and crying, another person  told him that my father was not dead, but that he was seriously wounded  and was  evacuated 1 hour earlier. My uncle, who was very relieved, gathered up my father's belongings and carried on.

God Bless to all those that served in Korea