i was here as a war correspondent when the americans came over to accept the surrender of jap troops below the thirty eighth parallel i remember how restful the green rice paddies looked the peaceful villages and towns like  it didn't amount to much like any small town anywhere but it was home to these people saw it was different it was a big town the capital city with one of a half million people and they were all gays so i was celebrating freedom after forty years of it was gay for these americans every g i was a symbol of liberation to the natives i learned something about koreans i learned of these people so remote from us strange even to their fellow asiatics was supposed human beings or want to live in peace and independen again as our correspondent again with american and other united nations troops bringing liberation i was glad i remembered because so much of it was gone the town the public buildings people destroyed by war our soldiers learn early however that in this battle there were terrorists savagery but these were their comrades in arms prisoners of the communists shop with their hands tied behind their backs  these men women and children were not killed accidentally in the heat of battle they were murdered in cold blooded place deliberately to spread terror to warn the survivors of the if you didn't let the communist monster swallow you alive he'd rather have you dead in the heart of tejon was only a pale reflection of saw where a great shattered homes blasted shops and everywhere laid up murdered dead perhaps it isn't exactly ten thousand perhaps the total for here right now is approximately that makes any difference in time we'll get a careful tabulation will learn the exact number of the slaughtered down to the last course of course some atrocities will not be counted at all because they were pro traded on the living atrocities of the spirit the heartbreak the slayers of our soldier dead one out of every twenty americans were killed as prisoners of war will be remorselessly tracked down wherever possible and brought the judged by one of the greatest atrocity  need never have sacrificed their lives for american honor communist imperialism is the real revenue it's crime in korea was a mistake a costly one not for them for us  we paid and the people of korea pa because we refused to see the criminal threat disaster that war brings and i saw a time i wanted to do something i wanted to do something that counted that helps and i want to do it now i suppose that's a natural reaction for any american when we americans see something we don't like something we believe is wrong something we consider a crime against mankind we want to act we want to put a stop to what's wrong that's the kind of people we are our fighting men you are fighting men in korea have been doing this part for many months for so many long months but what about the rest of us the fighting aggression and the threat of aggression doesn't the job just for our soldiers our sailors our marines in our airmen it's our job to because our security our freedom and our lives depend upon this nation's ability to meet aggression wherever it may strike our ability to hold aggression anywhere here perhaps will depend on how rapidly our affectively we really are and become strong again we must be ready for it at any moment we can all work in defense plants we can't build guns and planes and ships and tanks nor can very many of us serve in the armed forces but we can take a part in the national defen program all of us can and all of us must share the responsibility for making and keeping this country strong a vital part of our strengths is the strength of our economy the strength and the power of the dollars we spend and save each of us can share in two jobs paying as we go for our arsenal defense and building as we go the strength of our dollars by buying defense bonds not just one but as many as we care by signing on the payroll savings plan and by doing it now right now it's passed through i saw the film you just seen a film that shows exactly what is taking place in korea a film that could be typical of other communist aggression anywhere anytime i was glad that i could buy defense bonds and in that way help to fight communist aggression fighting with bombs today can help prevent crimes like the crime of korea from taking place elsewhere and even here tomorrow