The answer is simple because further comment is unnecessary. It is conclusive because the loyalty we give, and expect, precludes any slightest questioning of those orders. The second question is of much greater significance, and every member of this command is entitled to a full and reasoned answer. To me the issues are clear. It is not a question of this or that Korean town or village.
Real estate is, here, incidental.
It is not restricted to the issue of freedom for our South Korean allies, whose fidelity and valor under the severest stresses of battle we recognize, though that freedom is a symbol of the wider issues, and included among them. Soldiers of the 7th Inf. If these be true, and to me they are beyond any challenge, then this has ceased to be a fight for freedom for our Korean allies and for their national survival. It has become, and it continues to be, a fight for our own freedom, for our own survival, in an honorable, independent national existence. The sacrifices we have made and those we shall yet support are not offered vicariously for others, but in our own direct defense wherein certain principles mean more than life.