Rolf Margenau's Blog - Posts Tagged "our-troops"

It is unfortunate that the current unsettled situation in North Korea is threatening the 28,000 United States troops stationed in South Korea. I was there last fall, almost 60 years after serving there, and was impressed with the capability and vulnerability of the fine service people we met. Also, those of us who served in the early 50's can take pride in the staggering growth of South Korea. For example, there is a gleaming KIA auto factory located where the 7th Infantry Division had its headquarters near the DMZ - and no sign of the mud and wattle village nearby then. In any case, there is more interest this spring in my novel about the War, Public Information. Among other things, it explains what it was like to serve there during combat and after - a tremendous contrast to how our troops live and work there now. Because of that interest, I have lowered the price of the soft cover book for the next month or so to less than $20. It's available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.Public Information: A Novel about the Korean War