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This Day, 2019:
Donald Trump became the first sitting President to set foot in North Korea. Speaking of Kim jong-un in 2018, he said "we fell in love," that NK was disarming and was no a longer a threat - one of the president's bigger lies (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP Getty)
Donald Trump became the first sitting President to set foot in North Korea. Speaking of Kim jong-un in 2018, he said "we fell in love," that NK was disarming and was no a longer a threat - one of the president's bigger lies (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP Getty)
This Day, 1812:
With America at war again with Britain, James Madison issued an emergency appeal for new military officers. In 1812, the U.S. Army and Navy was an all-volunteer force (as it is today) and was considered weaker in both numbers and weaponry than Britain (more)
With America at war again with Britain, James Madison issued an emergency appeal for new military officers. In 1812, the U.S. Army and Navy was an all-volunteer force (as it is today) and was considered weaker in both numbers and weaponry than Britain (more)
Madison urged Congress to increase emergency commissions of officers, adjutants, quartermasters, engineers and more. Among the troops who distinguish themselves in the War of 1812 were two future presidents: William Henry Harrison and Andrew Jackson
70 years ago today, my grandfathers took very different paths. 1, a COL in the new ROK Army, ran to the sound of the guns & was declared MIA, presumed dead, within a week. The other packed up his young family & escaped Seoul to his in-laws’ compound in Kwangju. #KoreanWar70Years
I obviously never met my paternal grandfather; but after visiting Korea as an American soldier, walking the ground where his unit was overrun that first chaotic week of war, made me feel somehow closer to him.
The weirdest thing to ever happen to me happened at JSA. I suddenly got the feeling that someone was watching me. Just past the NorK guards was a tall skinny man in a dirty OD uniform, hands on his hips, staring right at me. My grandfather. A blink & he was gone.
1/ Very early in the morning of 6/25/50 near the 38th parallel in Korea, at about 10 pm 6/24 in the US, 14-year-old Kim Yeh Soon heard shelling. She thought it was training. Then she saw tanks and thought "the earth was going to fall apart." A thread.
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2/ The Korean War began 70 years ago tonight. This thread will last its first few days, as civilians fled, soldiers advanced, and Harry Truman took the US to war without thinking seriously about whether a war declaration was required.
3/ Tweets will appear over time. I will not answer replies to protect the thread. Please start a separate thread to discuss. This is from a chapter of my book-in-progress.
