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January 17th, 2008 at 3:09 am

Soldiers Rescue Passengers from Vehicle Accident

The Korean netizens and anti-US groups will assuredly keep talking about these two soldiers, but I can guarantee you won’t hear them talking about these soldiers:

Two 2nd Aviation Regiment soldiers traveling on a snowy highway last Friday said they reacted automatically when they spotted a car wrapped around a telephone pole with one bloody passenger hanging out a window.

â€œWe have to stop,â€ was the first thing Staff Sgt. Kimberly Veal, of the regimentâ€™s Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Attack), told the driver, Pfc. Bradley Herron, of the same unit.

They found three others in the car: one dead, another injured and another who appeared unhurt.

During a phone interview Monday, both Herron and Veal said they were shocked to see people driving past the crumpled car without stopping to offer help. [Stars & Stripes]

No one stopping to offer help at the scene of an accident?Â I’m shocked I tell you.Â Anyway make sure to read the whole thing because these soldiers did go above and beyond the call of duty trying to aid the people trapped in the vehicle. Great job by these two soldiers.Â

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Of course you’ll never hear mention of these soldiers - it just doesn’t fit the whole grievance narrative. Thank goodness for those soldiers.

BTW, this may amuse you - it’s a mashup of NK propaganda films and Top Gun: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=119_1200415617

Tony on January 17th, 2008
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Tony,

Thanks that is a funny video, I will post it soon.

GI Korea on January 17th, 2008
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Yep, you never hear about these kinds of GI-related incidents. I, too, was involved in helping out accident victims on the Kyungbu Expressway near the Banpo exit in 1998. The circumstances were pretty much the same, accident happens and the only thing the other motorists can think of is how they are going to get past this and on to their destinations.
One thing that really bugged me about my incident was that we flagged down a passing ambulance and they said they couldn’t help because they had to get back to their hospital. What?? Our incident was quickly broadcast over the news as, just coincidentally, a KBS new truck was right behind us as we stopped to render assistance. Me and my companions got some good coverage from that and the story that ran actually focused on the fact that foreigners had stopped to help while their countrymen drove by as it nothing was happening. Moral of this story, in Korea don’t get into an accident and expect to live.

Tim on January 17th, 2008
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Aside from the Stars & Stripes and this blog, these kinds of stories rarely, if ever, make the news - which is unfortunate.

Nomad on January 17th, 2008
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Koreans rarely, if ever, talk about some of the GOOD THINGS GIs and foreigners do. They seem to be so focused on xenophobic ways. Sure the oil spill thing they mention us, but other than that…

Beatinzone on January 18th, 2008
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During the oil spill clean up the Korean media mentioned expat foreigners and not GIs. I have not seen one article documenting that USFK had hundreds of GIs aiding with the oil spill clean up despite this information being on the public affairs release on the USFK website.

GI Korea on January 18th, 2008
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So you never hear about these stories?
Well then what the f*** is this?

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/01/19/2008011900361.html

You never hear about it because most of you can’t even read or understand the media that you’re whining about. Instead, you rely on few people to interpret everything for you and think that’s all there is.

My point is, you’ll never hear about the good stories that get printed in Korean papers here.

Tom on January 19th, 2008
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I am glad to see this story at least made the Chosun even though it is nearly a carbon copy of the Stars and Stripes report from two days ago.

If you have more of these stories feel free to drop the links here.

GI Korea on January 19th, 2008
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