Unremembered Victory: Time for this Story to be Mainstream American History

By Dennis H Klein

Unremembered Victory is a 1968 story about 4000 hapless ordinary army GIs, mostly conscripts, on the Korean DMZ who faced a threatened invasion by a North Korean enemy 200 times their size. Not a problem, there is a Nuclear option. Just saying no to a 2nd Vietnam, if the line did not hold, now declassified op orders say we were going nuke, sea and air, complete with a dozen atomic cannons. All winter and spring the line was assaulted by crack North Korean commandos. GIs and KATUSAs (integrated troops) died. A news blackout was declared regarding all things about the line holding so, in case the line caved, going nuke that would end the world could be done without the muss and fuss of public opinion.The line did hold because the enemy backed down. South Korea, unencumbered by North Korean harassment, leaped in less than two generations from mud and sticks to a first world power. Yet still the news blackout never stops. The DMZ War cannot be found mentioned in history books, war museums, movies and other mainstream media. Perhaps this story, so full of honor, trust and success, is just too contradictory of the one story of the Boomer generation, Vietnam, so full of obscenity, betrayal and failure. As a result, thousands of DMV Vets fret that no one has a clue that there was ever a ground war in Korea 66-69 despite nearly 60 GIs KIA, 3X the total killed in Panama, Desert Storm and Grenada combined. Though the author met GIs who were later killed or wounded and were fortunately only just passing acquaintances, none close enough to cause anything like

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692175954
• ISBN13: 9780692175958
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Truthinthehills
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"