Bill Pastore, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, September 20th, 2006: part of the Saving the legacy project

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they join d th war ju t at the end of th war. Th y were gi n part f K r a t app them. That was just because they were our allies. They didn t deserve that or ther would have been just one Korea. But they indoctrinated their people with mmum m. That's their prerogative. That's what they were was Communists. What were they supposed to do? Teach them how to be Hindus? And South Korea, we screwed up fierce. They got Syngman Rhea in as President, and then we're supposed to be training the ROK Armies, the Korean Army. They didn't train them. For the army that was there training them, this was a lark. We' ll just have a good time. Have a good liberty port; have a good tour of duty, and go home, and who cares? That was part of the problem. The Marine Corps trained the ROK Marines, and they were pretty good troops, but they were just like the Marine Corps. There was only one unit of them. So that there was not much they could do. It was just to save face and try to hold us up long enough to save face. If they argue long enough, pretty soon we' ll give a little and they' ll give a little, but it saves their face. With the Orientals, you've got to save face. You lose face and you're nothing. JAS: Yeah. BILL: But that's all it was for. In the prisoner exchange, they knew they were going to have to turn those prisoners over, those that were left. Boy, they treated them bad. But the Orientals are that way. They don't care about prisoners. They don't like prisoners. They treated our prisoners pretty bad. Now we're doing it, and that isn't right, either. I don't care who it is, it isn't right. You fight them, you kill them; if you take them prisoner you treat them humane. That's all. If they resist as a prisoner, get rid of them one way or 132