[MtnCat]

A gift from the Republic of Korea on the occasion of our republic's 200th birthday has been returned to its former beautiful condition:

http://www.voanews.com/media/video/1829445.html

Sometimes a happy story needs to be tossed out there. Too much negativity is a bad thing.

 

[DrReco]

You have an inquisitive, kind heart MtnCat... I'm on your page today with celebrating the good.

 

[MtnCat]

Thank you, Doc. Korea has a special place in my heart because that was "Dad's war" -- even though it was a "Police Action." After attending college for three months on a baseball scholarship, he realized he wasn't cut out for higher education and joined the Navy.

He was not big into politics, but when one of his ships ferried shell-shocked Marines off the peninsula to R&R in Japan, he told me it woke him up to the difference between "The Big War" and the then-current one. He was opposed to the spread of communism and was glad the South Koreans appreciated our assistance in their right to self-determination. I learned a lot about his perspective on that period when "M*A*S*H" was in it's heyday.

One of our cousins in Ohio served at the DMZ, fell in love with a Korean lady and married her. It wasn't a "Honey Trap." They've been happily married thirty years or more now and have lovely children.

Have corporations taken advantage of low wages there? Off-shored jobs there? Yes and yes. But I would rather support low-income folks in a land we helped keep from communism with American blood and treasure than give aid and comfort to BFE where folks want to wound and kill us. But that's just me.