When it became clear that the Americans had to fend off the Soviets who were penetrating Korea to get to the Japanese, an all-night meeting was convened at the White House (on August 10, 1945). Two junior officers, who hardly knew a thing about Korea, were sent into an adjoining room to carve out the US occupation zone. Working in haste and using a National Geographic map for reference, they proposed the area south of the thirty-eigth parallel be occupied by the U.S.
To this day, famillies on either side of the thirty eighth paralell have yet to be re-united. Wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, mothers and their children were seperated for a lifetime.
I was inspired to write this after reading a recent poster's question demanding why people aren't more grateful for America's help and frequent "bailing them out.". It's for reasons like this...people don't forget things like this.
2006-07-29
21:16:39
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