A LITTLE KNOWN STORY!

IN THIS MODERN AGE OF INSTANT GRATIFICATION AND INFORMATION MANY IMPORTANT STORIES GET LEFT OUT.  AND TO OUR EVERLASTING SHAME OUR YOUNG NEVER LEARN SOME OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT PAST.
AS AN EXAMPLE:  LITTLE IS KNOWN OR TOLD TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR (POLICE ACTION ACCORDING TO TRUMAN) SO READ ON AND LEARN.
IN THAT THREE YEAR CONFLICT SOME 35,000 AMERICANS DIED FIGHTING COMMUNISTS IN THAT FAR OFF LAND.
THE WAR RAGED ON WHILE FOES ARGUED CEASE FIRE.
IN ONE SUCH FIGHT WAS A COMPANY OF INFANTRY FROM THE 7TH DIVISION LED BY LT. JOE CLEMONS.  IN APRIL, 1953 THEY WERE TASKED WITH THE JOB TO DISLODGE A SUPERIOR FORCE OF CHINESE FROM A HILL CALLED "PORK CHOP HILL" AND HOLD IT.  THEY TOOK THE HILL WHILE LOSING 110 OF THEIR COMPANY STRENGTH OF 135.  THEN THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE REINFORCED.  THAT ORDER WAS LATER RESCINDED.  THE HILL WAS OF LITTLE VALUE EXCEPT AS A BARGAINING  CHIP AT THE PEACE TABLE.  THE ARMISTICE CAME THREE MONTHS LATER ON JULY 27, 1953.......Medicineman!