We Have Living Dead Living in Red China
Historically, war is a cold fact of life.
And one of its most terrifying aspects is that some men conscripted by their nations to fight are swallowed up and lost in its grisly shuffle.
They’re not among the known dead. They’re not among the known living.
They’re just gone.
After the war in Korea, The U.S. counted its casualties. Among them were 5,866 missing. Slowly, since then, it has whittled the number down.
There were 715 who were later located in prison camps and returned. An additional 1,550 bodies, less than half of them identifiable, were sent back to us by the Chinese. Others, evidence definitely indicated, had died either in action or prison camps. Still others were eventually written off by the U.S. government as “presumed dead.” Continue reading
This is one of those haunting stories from The Times. I wonder what happened to Kenny Ross and whether he ever became a writer. 
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