Ahh, yes, Korea: another war that America didn't need to be in. Just like Vietnam. But I digress. Sorry. I hate to see good men die for no good reason.

My dad, a U.S. Marine sergeant on a 105mm howitzer battery in Korea in 1951, carried a 4-inch .38 Smith and Wesson revolver. He didn't like 1911 45s. He said the sights were way too small. The gun was his personal gun, with a brown, basket-weave holster. He apparently shot a North Korean soldier with that gun as the soldier was climbing out of a box-type hiding place; the North Korean soldier apparently thought the coast was clear; he was wrong.



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