LOCAL VETERANS VOICE DOUBTS ABOUT MASSACRE ACCUSATIONS.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer News that American soldiers might have killed hundreds of Korean civilians in an incident from the conflict's earliest days drew skepticism Wednesday from veterans gathered at the VFW See Video for Windows. West Valley post. The veterans recalled a cold, unfamiliar country and rumors For other uses, see Rumor (disambiguation). Rumors is a farcical play by Neil Simon. At its start, several affluent couples gather in the posh suburban residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their tenth anniversary. of North Korean spies spies n. Plural of spy. v. Third person singular present tense of spy. when they were there, but added that regardless of what might have happened, 50 years is a long time to wait to bring it to light. ``It seems pretty late to be digging up up any accusations,'' said Jack Cummings, commander of the West Valley post, who said he had not heard about the alleged massacre until informed by a reporter. ``If you're asking if civilians get killed in wars, of course they do.'' Most of the early participants in what has been called the ``forgotten war'' were soldiers with sparse sparse - A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory. training mixed in with older Marine reservists. The allegations by Korean families seeking redress Compensation for injuries sustained; recovery or restitution for harm or injury; damages or equitable relief. Access to the courts to gain Reparation for a wrong. REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. were bolstered in part by veterans who recalled the incident, which took place at a village called No Gun Ri, The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported. The former soldiers who remembered the incident recalled also how scared their comrades were. Roy Shiraga, a Hacienda Heights Ha·ci·en·da Heights An unincorporated community of southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 56,100. resident not involved in the alleged attack, said American soldiers were not prepared for war and didn't expect one so close to World War II's end. ``We had to learn the hard way what combat was all about,'' said Shiraga, who arrived in Korea in September 1950, two months after the incident at No Gun Ri. ``They're marking the 50th anniversary of that war. It seems pretty late to be digging up any accusations.'' Duke Forrester's job was to guard the perimeter of Second Division headquarters during the conflict. He said he would hear rumors of North Korean infiltrators mixing among South Koreans, some of them children. He, like the others, said he had never heard of No Gun Ri until told about it Wednesday. ``It was a tough area. It was cold. Nobody knew anything about the area,'' said Forrester, a Sylmar resident. |
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