Talk:The Bridge at No Gun Ri

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Military history: Memorials

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Seems a biased account, according to Publishers Weekly:

Relative to the number of alleged participants, U.S. interviewees are few. (A high proportion, the authors find, suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.) The authors take pains to establish the men of No Gun Ri as dropouts and throwaways teenage rejects of a postwar society obsessed with prosperity and anti-communism. That in turn makes it easier to show them, as well as the Korean civilians, as victims of a government that sent them to Korea to fight a civil war on the side of squalid local tyranny.

This volume, with its focus on personal experience, is correspondingly best understood as advocacy reportage, eschewing critical analysis by concentrating on the victims on both sides of the rifles. [1]

Hmm, how to add this to the article? --Uncle Ed 16:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]