Food to Child Amputees
Heroes Remember
That was the saddest thing I've ever seen when we got to,
got off the boat at Inchon.
Interviewer: Roughly what year and what month
was it that you landed at Inchon?
It was January ‘54, and what hurt me the most, was we
were starved. We hadn't eaten, and when they did give us
something to eat, we were on the tube train going back to,
up towards Seoul. And here was some little kids with,
some with an arm gone, some with a leg gone,
so, I couldn't eat, we all gave ‘em our food and the old
Koreans there, we'd throw our cigarettes out to them,
and then I knew what life was kind of rough for them over there,
compared to what we were treated in Canada.
I thought we went through a hard, hardship during the war
because lack of money and food, but at least we had a home
and nobody was firing bullets at us, so...
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