Freedom Is Not Free....

[HARDCORE]

This Is From An Korean War POW. He Was With My Uncle When He Died In A North Korean Prisoner of War Camp.
Brenda [Mrs. Hardcore]

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Edward Everett Hale wrote a short story about American Army Lieutenant Philip Nolan who was on trial for treason. It was first published in 1863. At his trial Nolan pronounced that he did not want to see or hear anything about the United States of America for the rest of his life.


So he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life at sea. Just think of that! No one on the various ships he was put on ever said anything about the United States of America. He was never given a newspaper. This is how the rest of his life was. He was a man with no country!


As the ship he was on was replaced by another he was transferred at sea and life went on that way. He never saw any land.


When the end came a US flag, Nolan made, was found among his things.

With us in captivity in North Korea were many people who were stateless! When POWs and internees were sent home they did not have a state so there was no place to send them. It looked like they would forever have to live In North Korea! No other country was looking for them. They were lost to the world.



There were 18 Stateless people with us who were not released until 1954-one year after we were.

There were Tatars and White Russians in that small group.

If this interests you a book, recently published and authored by Sagid Salah (aka Salahutdin). The author is the eldest son of a family that was with us in captivity. There was the father, mother, 5 sons, the youngest was less than 1 year old, a sister, the mothers sister and brother.

The book entitled “STATELESS”, is a true account of how this group came to freedom. Sagid had made a “Deal with Russian intel.” This remarkable story, a true account, and worth the read.

Sagid’s father fought in the Russian Revolution against the communist. In the US Sagid became a scientist working for the Atomic Energy Commission. He is now retired. What a country!

So this gives new meaning to the phrase “Freedom is not Free!


Nuff Stuff fer today

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