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    Pancakes in Honor of a Marine

    MAY 27, 2012 1:20PM

    By Pensive Person


    Topics: pancakes, memory, mother, memorial day, marine, korean war

    • 0 Ratings
    • 37 Views
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    Vodka and Milk (Part III)

    FEBRUARY 16, 2012 1:32PM

    By L.A. Perry


    Topics: korean war, fiction, chevrolet hardtop, philadelphia, 1950's, vodka

    • 0 Ratings
    • 298 Views
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    Kim in Korea

    NOVEMBER 28, 2011 10:17AM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: life stories, indiana, spencer, massachusetts, new hampshire, texas, air force, korea, korean war

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 1919 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Dad almost took his war memories to the grave. Almost.

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 1:54AM

    By SnippytheGrammarDog


    Topics: don't take your family history to the grave, mystics seers and dreamers, second sight, hospital corpsman, gangs of la 1940s-style, purple heart, korean war, korean conflict, chosin reservoir, george wykel, my parents' secret lives, my parents' secret history

    • 2 Ratings
    • 248 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Are We Doomed To Repeat Our Failures?

    JULY 5, 2011 4:26PM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: foreclosures, bank failures, world conflicts, military actions, korean war, china, unsustainable levels of debt, bush, obama, federal reserve, ben bernanke, glass-steagall act of 1933, lehman brothers, roaring '20's, "policing the world", world conflicts, korean war, china, robert gates, war on terror, cold war, the great recession, news, politics, open+call, economy, books

    • 0 Ratings
    • 125 Views
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    The Opening Chapter

    JUNE 3, 2011 5:34PM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: open call, nursing, paralyzed, soldier, cancer, open+call, family, health, books, family, korean war, world warld two, grey lady, hospital volunteer, florida, sarasota, grace balogh, mother, hospital, passage by sandy powers

    • 0 Ratings
    • 128 Views
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    The Opening Chapter

    JUNE 3, 2011 5:33PM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: open call, nursing, paralyzed, soldier, cancer, open+call, family, health, books, family, korean war, world warld two, grey lady, hospital volunteer, florida, sarasota, grace balogh, mother, hospital, passage by sandy powers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 582 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Honoring the Warriors

    MAY 20, 2011 5:13PM

    By Marty'sHusband


    Topics: korean war, fathers, pride, recognition

    • 0 Ratings
    • 194 Views
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    Kirkus Review

    MAY 10, 2011 10:44AM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: soldiers' leters, military, korean war, depression, farm, ohio, passage, sandy powers, mother, autobiography, journals, world war two, politics, open+call, family, environment, economy, books

    • 1 Ratings
    • 190 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Mother's Day

    APRIL 23, 2011 9:31AM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: grace balogh, mother's day, korean war, world war two, great depression, ohio, lorain, politics, environment, open call, books, economy, family, book passasge, sandy powers

    • 0 Ratings
    • 190 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Passage

    MARCH 13, 2011 10:32AM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: japanese internment, fdr, harry truman, pacific war, war fever, japan, rationing, great depression, soldiers, threats to democracy, fbi agent. communism, korean war, open+call, world war two, passage, sandy powers

    • 0 Ratings
    • 364 Views
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    The Rosebeds of the hangmen’s wife of Pyongyang

    MARCH 9, 2011 1:58PM

    By Marinella Charlotte van ten Haarlen


    Topics: books, stalinism, machinists, christmas, marinella charlotte van ten haarlen, energy, foreign exchange, china, relief supplies, blackmail of the international community, missile, nuclear, fear of war, arbitrariness, children, malnutrition, internet publishers media verlag, freezing, kaeson, disease, suffering, starvation, totalitarian regimes, peace, labor camps, guilt by association, rocket attacks, dictator, dmz, officials, weapons, persecution of muslims, 1950-1953, korean war, naval operations, hangman, pyongyang, persecution of christians, prison camps, dictatorship, south korea, kim, un, north korea, politics, open call

    • 0 Ratings
    • 704 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Rosebeds Prepublication- Excerpt of a short novel

    DECEMBER 30, 2010 9:49AM

    By Marinella Charlotte van ten Haarlen


    Topics: politics, belief/religion, north korea, un, kim, south korea, dictatorship, prison camps, persecution of christians, pyongyang, hangman, naval operations, korean war, 1950-1953, persecution of muslims, weapons, officials, dmz, dictator, rocket attacks, guilt by association, labor camps, peace, totalitarian regimes, starvation, suffering, disease, kaeson, freezing, internet publishers mediaverlag, malnutrition, children, arbitrariness, fear of war, nuclear, missile, blackmail of the international community, relief supplies, china, foreign exchange, energy, marinella charlotte van ten haarlen, christmas, machinists, stalinism

    • 1 Ratings
    • 163 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    About the hangman of Pyongyang

    DECEMBER 6, 2010 5:25PM

    By Marinella Charlotte van ten Haarlen


    Topics: stalinism, machinists, christmas, marinella charlotte van ten haarlen, energy, foreign exchange, china, relief supplies, blackmail of the international community, missile, nuclear, fear of war, arbitrariness, children, malnutrition, internet publishers mediaverlag, freezing, kaeson, disease, suffering, starvation, totalitarian regimes, peace, labor camps, guilt by association, rocket attacks, dictator, dmz, officials, weapons, persecution of muslims, 1950-1953, korean war, naval operations, hangman, pyongyang, persecution of christians, prison camps, dictatorship, south korea, kim, un, north korea

    • 1 Ratings
    • 325 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Rosebeds of the hangman´s wife of Pyongyang

    DECEMBER 4, 2010 9:19AM

    By Marinella Charlotte van ten Haarlen


    Topics: books, stalinism, machinists, christmas, marinella charlotte van ten haarlen, energy, foreign exchange, china, relief supplies, blackmail of the international community, missile, nuclear, fear of war, arbitrariness, children, malnutrition, internet publishers mediaverlag, freezing, kaeson, disease, suffering, starvation, totalitarian regimes, peace, labor camps, guilt by association, rocket attacks, dictator, dmz, officials, weapons, persecution of muslims, 1950-1953, korean war, naval operations, hangman, pyongyang, persecution of christians, prison camps, dictatorship, south korea, kim, un, north korea

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1684 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Fears of a Foreigner Living in Seoul, South Korea

    DECEMBER 3, 2010 4:09AM

    By accuzimcool


    Topics: south korea, north korea, artillary fire, yeonpyeong island, korean war, 1984

    • 48 Ratings
    • 1005 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    Casualty

    NOVEMBER 11, 2010 10:24AM

    By A Persistent Muse


    Topics: buster, korean war, the faces of woundedness, service, suicide, homage, for soldiers and their families and friends on veterans day and always, in recognition of all the ways there are to die

    • 0 Ratings
    • 220 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Shell Shock, Battle Fatigue, PTSD - A Human Heart is Crying Out

    AUGUST 9, 2010 5:13PM

    By Ramonas Voices


    Topics: ww ii, ww i, war, viet nam, shell shock, ptsd, korean war, collateral damage, bob herbert, battle fatigue

    • 18 Ratings
    • 545 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    A Father's Day Reckoning

    JUNE 17, 2010 5:17AM

    By scupper


    Topics: superman, father, husband, gifted, blue collar, maintenance, oak, heart, alcoholism, violence, korean war, rage, depression, father's day

    • 0 Ratings
    • 304 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Memorial Day 2010: Time to Remember, Honor...(Revisited)

    MAY 31, 2010 10:28AM

    By Dorian de Wind


    Topics: navy lt. (j.g.) thomas hudner, ensign jesse leroy brown, korean war, world war ii, afghanistan war, iraq war, memorial day, military, war heroes, gay/lesbian, family, belief/religion

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