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Dear Editor:
On a cold the evening of January 12th, 1952 my dad and his rifle and the rest of Love Company were readying to once again attempt to take Hill 472. Hill 472 was one of many that made up the terrain surrounding the North Korean Capital city of Pyeongyang.
It was a clear night. He said every bush seemed to be a North Korean soldier.
My dad loved and respected his Captain Duhnam. Dad mourned the loss of a young soldier from Missouri named Tommy. Tommy wrote a song for Captain Dunham.
"We're Captain Dunham's Troopers...The finest in the land.
We'd fight for love and glory... Onto the very last man."
The Christmas Eve prior to that frigid January evening, my dad and some friends crashed an officer's party and sang the song to Captain Dunham. Captain Dunham loved it.
It was only 10:00 a.m. on January 12th and the battle for hill 472 was over. Of the 140 American fighting men of only 70 we able to walk out. Some accounts have it at even less than 70.
I wonder what those men would have thought if they had known that decades later an American President would be trading "Love Letters" with the Supreme Commander of North Korea.
If you are holding on to the charitable notion that President Trump was employing some sort of deft reverse logic that would dupe "Rocket Boy" into relinquishing his Nukes, please come to your senses.
Donald Trump is a loose cannon. He is not fit for the task of commanding our military. He needs to be voted out of office in November so that we have one less worry on a cold January evening.
Bill Duwell
Mineral Point, WI