Lost Korean War Battalion Awaits MIA Decision
Trapped by two Chinese divisions, troops of the 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment were left to die in far northern Korea, abandoned by the U.S. command in a Korean War episode viewed as one of the most troubling in American military history. Sixty years later, those fallen Soldiers, the lost battalion of Unsan, are stranded anew....More

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Lost but not forgotten.

The article says the Obama administration is moving slowly to reverse a decision by Bush. Why the hell doesn't he just sign the damn order and get this taken care of!? Hell, he can sign bills on a whim to put this country in debt up to its eyeballs, but has to move slowly on a matter such as this? A real shame.

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Originally posted by xgrunt:
Lost Korean War Battalion Awaits MIA Decision
Trapped by two Chinese divisions, troops of the 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment were left to die in far northern Korea, abandoned by the U.S. command in a Korean War episode viewed as one of the most troubling in American military history.

This story reminds me of the decision by the interim Pacific Fleet commander to abandon the Marines, Sailors, and civilian construction workers on Wake Island to the Japanese.

That, not Pearl Harbor, represented the lowest point the US Navy ever sunk to. It's one thing to get surprised. It's quite another to deliberately abondon fellow Americans and run away from a fight.

Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher was shocked when he received these orders. The rank and file Sailors and Marines of the relief force were disgusted and boiling mad when they turned around 600 miles from the island. That too was a disgrace.

That said of the original decision to abandon men to the enemy, I wouldn't be too much in a rush to condemn either the Bush administration's concerns or (I can hardly believe I'm saying this) the Obama administration's concern over the safety of the Americans who'd be recovering the remains of these fallen American patriots.

You only have to consider the recent DPRK sinking of the ROKS Cheonan and the subsequent behavior of the NORKS and the ChiComs to see that these concerns aren't empty or contrived.