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D-Day + 56 Years

incheon-landings.jpgToday is the anniversary of the Incheon landings. I was reminded by commenter Jim Baxter, who said:

Fifty-six years ago today I landed at Inchon as a rifle squad leader with the 1st Marine Division. Twelve days later I took a bullet in downtown Seoul (Mapo Blvd.) as we set her free. It was worth it!

Any human being or nation is worthy of deliverance in behalf of the human Freedom of individual value and citizenry.

To Jim Baxter and all the Korean War vets — including the South Korean and allied troops who fought in common cause against a uniquely ruthless form of totalitarian savagery — thank you. You can read the accounts of some who fought in the battle here. The Naval Historical Center has some good photo galleries here, and more pictures of the offense that followed here. Let’s also thank those who landed at Incheon the first time, in 1945. Weapons and tactics change, but the cause remains. We want Korea to be whole and free.

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  1. It’s probably not an overstatement to say that the Incheon landing saved Korea from Communism (half of it, anyway), although I suppose an eventual breakout from the Busan Perimeter—without the Incheon flanking action—might have been possible.

    Too bad an increasing number of South Koreans (though presumably, hopefully, a minority) don’t seem to appreciate any of this. Considering what the alternative is to the current state of affairs, I’m gobsmacked when one hears the kinds of things a few prominent Koreans say in the media these days. Anyhow, it seems like the lefties have got what they wanted, anyhow: the Kim Family Regime firmly in place in the North, and an ever-increasing, pervasive, insidious influence over public discourse in the South.