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Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
Presidential Pilot Remembers Flights Both Fancy and Fraught With Danger
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsHe sits on a couch thumbing through a photo album. "Here's Dwight Eisenhower," he says. "And LBJ, Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev and Walter Cronkite." Famed Army One helicopter pilot, Retired Master Army Aviator Lt. Col. Gene Boyer, is glancing over the images that defined his life. He stops and recalls, wistfully, what it was like to get to know John Steinbeck during the Vietnam War. He was amazing, Boyer told AOL News during a recent interview. "The great Steinbeck. And just look what he wrote about us helicopter pilots." Chris Epting Helicopter pilot Lt. Col. Gene Boyer -- who ...
North Korea Threatens 'Sacred War of Justice'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsSouth Korean soldiers marched and practiced blasting their most powerful weapons within view of the North Korean land border today, and Pyongyang retaliated only with words, but strong ones, threatening a "sacred war of justice" involving nuclear weapons. South Korea's president made a rare trip to a front-line base overlooking North Korea during today's war games, the biggest ones yet in response to Pyongyang's bombardment of a border island last month, which killed two southern marines and two civilians. "We had believed patience would ensure peace on this land, but that was not the case," ...
O Christmas Tree: Squabble Over South Korean Border Display Could Escalate
By David Wood - Politics DailyAh, Christmas on the Korean peninsula! Reviving a tradition dormant for seven years, South Korea has erected a 100-foot Christmas tree-shaped tower on its side of the Demilitarized Zone, and decorated it with 100,000 lights -- and a lighted cross. As armed Republic of Korea Marines stood guard, a choir stood at the foot of the "tree'' and sang carols, amplified to blast the Christmas music into the mandatorily atheist North. As expected in this tortured land where at least 1.6 million people (and probably twice that many) were killed, wounded or went missing in three years of war (1950-53), ...
A New Korean War Would Be Devastating, but It Could Happen
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- There would be no winner if war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula. But more than 57 years after the armistice suspended open hostilities between the U.S.-allied Republic of Korea in the south and the Chinese-backed Democratic People's Republic in the north, their border remains trip-wire tense. And both sides are braced for a return to conflict, however unlikely, that would kill millions of people and resonate economically and politically across the globe. In the South Korean capital of Seoul today, residents participated in a 20-minute air attack drill by donning gas masks and ...
SKorea Announces New Drills on Island Attacked by North
By not in system - AOL NewsSEOUL, South Korea (Nov. 29) -- Troops geared up Monday for new artillery drills on a front-line island targeted by a deadly North Korean bombardment last week as the South Korean president vowed tougher retaliation for any future agression from North Korea. Similar live-fire maneuvers by South Korean troops one week earlier triggered the North's bombardment that decimated parts of Yeonpyeong Island, killed four people and drew return fire in a clash that set the region on edge. The new drills planned for Tuesday could have even higher stakes: South Korean and American warships are currently ...
Troops Buck Historical Trend by Saying Gays OK
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 27) -- When a majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it was in sharp contrast to the time when America's fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting racial minorities and women in the services. The survey, due out Tuesday, is expected to find pockets of resistance among combat troops to ending the ban on gays. But some 70 percent of respondents were expected to say that lifting the ban would have a positive or mixed effect, or none at all, according to officials familiar with the ...
SKorea Reports 2 Civilian Deaths in NKorea Clash
By not in system - AOL News
INCHEON, South Korea (Nov. 24) -- Rescuers found the burned bodies Wednesday of two islanders killed in a North Korean artillery attack - the first civilian deaths from a skirmish that marked a dramatic escalation of tensions between the rival Koreas. The barrage on the tiny island of Yeonpyeong in the western waters near the Koreas' maritime border also killed two South Korean marines and wounded 18 others Tuesday in what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called one of the "gravest incidents" since the Korean War. Kim Hyun-tae, Yonhap / AP An aerial view shows destroyed houses on South ...
Deliberate or Accidental, a New Korean War Would be Devastating
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe soaring modern glass towers of downtown Seoul are magnificent -- and to a North Korean artillery officer squinting through his sights from just 32 miles away, a delicious set of targets. The glistening South Korean capital is a city of glass, almost literally in the shadow of some 500 long-range heavy artillery guns from which North Korea can fire half a million artillery shells an hour, for several hours. A war on the Korean peninsula could explode almost without warning, senior U.S. military officers say. North Korea's immediate, if suicidal, intent in such a conflict: to demolish Seoul ...
North Korea Bombards South Korean Island in Deadly Attack
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 23) -- North Korea fired more than 100 artillery shells onto a South Korean border island today, killing two southern marines and wounding 18 people in a brazen attack that prompted the South to return fire and put its military on its highest alert. South Korea's president said he would unleash "enormous retaliation" should the North strike again. President Barack Obama was awoken around 4 a.m. with news of the clash and was to phone South Korea's president, the BBC reported. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called it "one of the gravest incidents since the end of the Korean War," ...
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