The Gabilans to Chosun

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alongside the run up to full-scale war in Vietnam in the late 1960s tens of thousands of American boys were also sent to the Republic of Korea. Colloquially termed South Korea it was a rugged and desolate land. Americans back home knew little about it other than a war had been waged there a generation before. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The public as well as the news media were ignorant of the ongoing American military struggles below the 38th Parallel.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The following pages are one man's story of service in Chosun the Land of the Morning Calm</span></p>