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This year, 2021, marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm.
For the first time, the American president called for civilian volunteers stateside to help with the mobilization.
Former Military Depot personnel were summoned. The rate of pay (about $9 an hour) was better than unemployment.
It began on Jan 17, 1991, in response to Iraq invasion of Kuwait and concluded on Feb 28, 1991, when the American-led United Nations team won a decisive tank battle, featuring the M-l Abrams Tank, in the desert.
Hence, it is sometimes referred to as the “42-day war.” Thank goodness, because once you signed on for a military duty, you were committed until the conclusion. However, “last in, first out” did apply.
Jan 13, 2021
HAEAN, South Korea – Along the border with North Korea is a town where the sad legacy of war is perhaps best understood by looking at the crops in the field.
Standing on a wind-swept plot on a hillside, Han Gi-taek, 69, peered over the land and recalled the hard labor, cold nights and stray land mines that made it difficult for his family to cultivate the ground beneath his feet. First they did it with their bare hands and shovels, he said. In more recent years, it has been done using tractors, with the piles of rocks that ring the field bearing witness to the family’s decades of labor.