Status Updates From Korea : Canada's Forgotten War

Very cool picture of a young Rene Levesque acting as a press correspondent during the war

"Dr Earl Russell recalls that the first case of syphilis he ever treated was contracted by a soldier who "managed to acquire the disease through the wire at Pusan. This was obviously a highly skilled feat and said something for the abilities of the Canadians who went to the Far East.""

"The whole battalion was on parade, over nine hundred of us. Then the major got up in front of us and yelled, "You are going into Korea tomorrow. I hope to hell you die better than you live."

Chapter 1: Probably one of the best intros to the Korean War I've read. Not overly detailed, not too glancing. Just right. Well written.

"I was only seventeen when I lied my way into the US Army and the unit I was with spent a year and a half at Kimpo airport, near Seoul... The Koreans looked at us as saviours of their country, because at the time they hoped that all of Korea was going to be free. As we know, this never happened. I used to wonder what kind of saviours we were, though. I was just a kid with a gun."