Americans Abroad

The one thing I haven't gotten to do is to go up to the DMZ and help them launch balloons into the north. I think that is pretty damn cool. They fill them with assorted things anything from candy, to DVDs, hand written messages.

Really the only thing that can be done is to continue to put pressure on China, get information into the country, and help refugees escape. Sharing information about North Korea with friends and family helps as well.

My FIL is from a village just outside Kaesong. He was going to college when the war broke out and fled to the south as he was going to be forced to join the North Korean Army. With no job he ended up fighting anyway on the side of the south and the US. He hasn't seen his family in over 60 years. It is very sad, but he does have a great family here with a wife, three daughters, three son-in-laws, a granddaughter and grandson (in the old days they thought it better to have sons, so I think it's kind of funny he had 3 daughters). I have a picture of the three taken when my wife was about 5 more so and you can see just how poor they were back then (this would have been around the mid 70s).

I didn't have any relatives (that I know of) fighting in that war. My grandfather in the most important mission in WWII (I'll let you guess, just don't say it). In that case both my grandfather and my FIL's lives depended on the outcome of a war.