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Dan Kim (aka danielmkim.bsky.social) Profile picture
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Jun 25, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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.

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