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Thank you for your timely cover stories on Korea and the accompanying feature articles -- "Beating the Odds at Inchon" and General Douglas MacArthur's "Duty, Honor, Country" speech (THE NEW AMERICAN, February 24th). With all the media focusing on the war in Iraq, attention is naturally (or more likely purposely) being drawn away from the dangerous threat on the Korean peninsula. Your articles were an eerie reminder of the media's obsession with the Monica Lewinsky affair to throw others off the Chinagate scandal trail.
A few years ago I had the opportunity to visit Inchon, where General MacArthur made his famous amphibious landing. There's a memorial honoring the great leader in a park overlooking the harbor. It's probably not an exaggeration to say that General MacArthur is remembered and honored more today in South Korea than he is even in the United States.
On the same trip, I joined a USO tour of the DMZ at the truce village of Panmunjom. It was a rather tense experience to be just ...