I REMEMBER KOREA I WAS THERE

 

Korea

I was there this is what I seen

I have Newspapers and documents

Eugene Halverson

Korea

I was there this is what I seen and found

I have Newspapers and documents

Eugene Halverson

The World War was over and the Japanese were defeated and sent home and so were the Land Lords.  The Koreans were finally free and happy.  But the Yalta Treaty gave America one half of Korea and Russia the other half.  No one bothered to ask the Koreans what they wanted. 

Well they did not want to have their county divided up and occupied by foreign powers.   

All they wanted was to free and left alone.  They did not want the Father Land divided.

 They were among thousands of leftist farmers who believed communist North Korean promises of “liberation” from landlords and kept fighting long after North Korean troops retreated and even after the Korean War ended in 1953 with an uneasy truce. 

It was South Koreans who shot at me when I was welding at night on the runway.  Once twenty of them were caught pounding napalm bombs with hammers and bars trying to blow them and me up.   One night I was on guard duty and it was very dark.  They were scampering here and there, stealing barrels of gas and oil.  It was really noisy.  It was kind of funny and they were on their side of the fence so I left them alone. 

There was no promise of “Liberation” from America, we were determined to occupy Korea and make it part of our empire.  America found Sigmund Rhee and made him President. 

Well with a fist full of money and his own army he began killing his own people for America.  The killings began two years before the war.  Just before the war began he arrested several thousand farmers.  He did not know what to do with them so he asked a US General if he could kill them.  The ocean had bodies floating all the way to Japan and Okinawa.   After this he no longer kept prisoners he just shot and dumped their bodies in trenches where they fell.  He murdered 500,000 South Koreans, men, women and children.

The war begins in July 1950 and by the end of August the KPA occupied most of Korea.  One little corner was all we had.  They were a long way from home and hampered by supply shortages and massive losses, continually staged attacks on UN forces in an attempt to penetrate the Pusan Perimeter and drive us into the sea.  Five KPA divisions massed around Tague preparing to cross the Naktong River and assault it from the north and west.  If they crossed the Naktong we would lose the war and would be swimming in the ocean.  Soon however, we able to use the port to amass an overwhelming advantage in troops and equipment, the Navy with their big guns and the Air Force were strafing and bombing.

 After six weeks, the KPA force collapsed and retreated in defeat. 

The UN force launched a counterattack at Inchon on September 15.  That forced them to leave before they were surrounded.  The UN forces in the perimeter broke out from the perimeter the following day.   Eventually the ground the war was reduced into a stalemate.

Thousands of refugees were scatted around Tague and they still hated us.  Rhee took care of that problem by killing them.  They were mostly unarmed farmers but we dropped bombs on them, ships killed them with their cannons when they came to the beach for safety.  We machine gunned lines of refugee’s escaping the battle field and our planes strafed them too.   There were dead bodies lying everywhere, starving children eating grass and garbage. 

I was at the airfield at Tague, when I was there when Rhee Goons came into my tent and took Kim my 12 year old house boy.  They also went through the village I lived in and took many more women and men killed them.   Our officers had to be in on the scheme too.  We always had a rifle and ammunition just in case.  We were told to turn in our rifles in a short time before this.  We would have went after them and brought Kim back.  I took pictures of a few murdered villagers but could not take pictures of the children.  After the soldiers took their parents the small orphaned children came to us to eat our garbage.  They eventually died of starvation.  We could do nothing but watch them wither away and die.  Some of us saved food to feed them.   It was a very nasty war.  When I walked through the village I seldom found anyone they were all hiding.  A fine how-do-you-do.

We killed 2,000,000 North Koreans and 2,000,000 South Koreans.  Rhee killed 500,000 of his own people with our help.  North and South were our names, they were all Koreans, all brothers.  They hid anyone who came to their door.

Rhee lost the only fair election they had but he was still killing.  He went to Masan and caused a riot.  The people went to the streets when Rhee after rounded up a bunch of College kids and Professors.  A General had Rhee arrested and run him off to Japan. 

I asked a Translator why in the world did you elect him as President.  He shook his head and said “America elected him”, “We would have done a better job”. 

“It will take fifty years but we will be free”.   I thought he was just wishing but it really happened.

With Rhee gone South Korea was finally free and it began blossoming like a rose.  The mud and straw houses are gone now and we see many modern cities. 

A new generation seems unaware of past hatreds and now we are thanked for freeing them, “but mostly they freed themselves”.  I wish I could forget.

I loved the people and I am glad they survived and are “free”.  And I am happy to not have had to kill anyone. 

                                                                                                                Korean Truth Commission

The BoDo secretly fought all invaders, China, Russia, Japan, and United States.  They wanted freedom from invaders and to be Liberated from the Landlords.  Syngman Rhee ordered the execution of people related to either the Bodo League or the South Korean Workers Party.

The Bodo Massacre was a War Crime

A war against civilians who had no connection with communism or communists that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War.  Experts estimate that the full total ranges from 200,000 to 500,000. 

The South Korean government tried to conceal the massacre for four decades. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it.

General Douglas MacArthur made no attempts to curb the mass killings.  He said, it is an "internal matter".  He let it be known that all Koreans are our enemy, and shoot them if needed. “Shoot to Kill”.  I was very happy when Truman fired him.

He was hated by everyone here so he lived in Japan and his statue is guarded 24 hours a day to stop it from being toppled. 

The massacres started one day later in Hoengseong, Gangwon-do 30,000 South Koreans were summarily and shot by ROK forces.  One US lieutenant colonel is known to have approved the executions, when he told a South Korean colonel that he could kill a large number of prisoners in Pusan.  A mass execution of 3,400 South Koreans did indeed take place near Pusan that summer 

United States official documents show that American officers witnessed and photographed the massacre. American witnesses also reported the scene of the execution of a girl who appeared to be 12 or 13 years old.  And 40 victims had their backs broken with rifle butts and were shot later. Victims in seaside villages were tied together and thrown into the sea to drown

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There were also British and Australian witnesses.  Great Britain raised this issue with the U.S. at a diplomatic level.  In December, British troops saved civilians lined up to be shot by South Korean officers and seized one execution site outside Seoul to prevent further massacres. 

It was a right wing dictatorship and worse than the North.  There are thousands of American military reports of the massacres and all are “stamped secret” and filed away, other accounts are dismissed as lies.

Associated Press

Seoul, Korea is seeking damages for indiscriminate killings.  They are digging grave by mass grave finding skeletons and buried truths of a cold blooded slaughter of unknown thousands of leftists and hapless peasants.  Many mass graves reveal many were killed long before the war.  Many small children were killed with their parents, 23 children in one grave alone.

Eye witnesses said, that the North did not kill many of us.

Chung Soon-Duk story

The last communist guerrilla is still defiant and hates America.  She fought until her capture 40 years ago.  She laments her “pathetic mess”.  Wounded a few times, lost her leg and husband.  “All my life, I have been a “unification warrior” to free the Fatherland from the Americans.  I am the only guerrilla left.  She demanded to be killed but died of old age.   

The UN force launched a counterattack at Inchon on September 15.  That forced them to leave before they were surrounded.  The UN forces in the perimeter broke out from the perimeter the following day.   Eventually the ground the war was reduced into a stalemate.

Thousands of refugees were scatted around Tague and they still hated us.  We took care of that problem by killing them.  They were mostly unarmed farmers but we dropped bombs on them, ships killed them with their cannons when they came to the beach for safety.  We machine gunned lines of refugee’s escaping the battle field and our planes strafed them too.   There were dead bodies lying everywhere, starving children eating grass and garbage. 

When I was working Rhee Boy's came into my tent and took Kim my 12 year old house boy.  They went through the village I lived in and took many more women and men killed them.  They had us turn in our rifles or we could have went after them.  Our officers had to be in on the scheme too.  I took a few pictures of a dead person.  I saved food to feed the little orphans eating our garbage. The soldiers took their parents. Most of them eventually died of starvation.  It was a very sad war.  When I walked through the village I seldom found anyone they were all hiding.   A fine how-do-you-do.

We killed 2,000,000 North Koreans and 2,000,000 South Koreans.  Rhee killed 500,000 of his own people with our help. 

Rhee lost the only fair election they had but he was still killing.  He rounded up a bunch of College kids and Professors in Masan and there was a riot.  The South Korean Army came in and arrested Rhee and run him off to Japan. 

I asked a Translator why in the world did you elect him as President.  He shook his head and said “America elected him”, “We would have done a better job”.  “It will take fifty years but we will be free”.   I thought he was just wishing but it really happened.

With Rhee gone South Korea was finally free and it began blossoming like a rose.  The mud and straw houses are gone and we see many modern cities. 

A new generation seems unaware of past hatreds and now we are thanked for freeing them, “but mostly they freed themselves”. 

I loved the people and I am glad they survived and are “free”

Korean Truth Commission

The BoDo secretly fought all invaders, China, Russia, Japan, and United States.  They wanted freedom from invaders and to be Liberated from the Landlords.  Syngman Rhee ordered the execution of people related to either the Bodo League or the South Korean Workers Party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bodo Massacre a War Crime

A war against civilians who had no connection with communism or communists that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War.  Experts estimate that the full total ranges from 200,000 to 500,000. 

The South Korean government tried to conceal the massacre for four decades. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it.

General Douglas MacArthur made no attempts to curb the mass killings.  He said, it is an "internal matter".  He let it be known that all Koreans are our enemy, and shoot them if needed. “Shoot to Kill”.  I was very happy when Truman fired him.

He was hated by everyone here so he lived in Japan and his statue is guarded 24 hours a day to stop it from being toppled. 

The massacres started one day later in Hoengseong, Gangwon-do 30,000 South Koreans were summarily and shot by ROK forces.  One US lieutenant colonel is known to have approved the executions, when he told a South Korean colonel that he could kill a large number of prisoners in Pusan.  A mass execution of 3,400 South Koreans did indeed take place near Pusan that summer 

United States official documents show that American officers witnessed and photographed the massacre. American witnesses also reported the scene of the execution of a girl who appeared to be 12 or 13 years old.  And 40 victims had their backs broken with rifle butts and were shot later. Victims in seaside villages were tied together and thrown into the sea to drown.  

There were also British and Australian witnesses.  Great Britain raised this issue with the U.S. at a diplomatic level.

In October 1950, the Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre occurred.

In December, British troops saved civilians lined up to be shot by South Korean officers and seized one execution site outside Seoul to prevent further massacres

It was a right wing dictatorship and worse than the North.  There are thousands of American military reports of the massacres and all are “stamped secret” and filed away, other accounts are dismissed as lies.

Associated Press

Seoul, Korea is seeking damages for indiscriminate killings.  They are digging grave by mass grave finding skeletons and buried truths of a cold blooded slaughter of unknown thousands of leftists and hapless peasants.  Many mass graves reveal many were killed long before the war.  Many small children were killed with their parents, 23 children in one grave alone.

Eye witnesses said that the North did not kill many of us.

Chung Soon-Duk story

The last communist guerrilla is still defiant and hates America.  She fought until her capture 40 years ago.  She laments her “pathetic mess”.  Wounded a few times, lost her leg and husband.  “All my life, I have been a unification warrior to free the Fatherland from the Americans.  I am the only guerrilla left.  She demanded to be killed but died of old age.   

The American Empire fizzled out, leaving millions dead, money wasted and nothing solved. We killed too many, and we should apologize to both Koreas.  They really do not like Kim Jong-un but they need him to protect them from both America and China.  Maybe I’m dreaming but some day they will be free in one nation and no dictators.  They have done this before.