My apologies for this Lord Beaverbrook character who recently decided to begin trolling the site as Rob mentioned.

Also my apologies to everyone that reads the site from George Washington University because I have have to moderate all comments from there due to this person, which is unfortunate considering I have other ROK Drop readers from the university.

You can still comment but now I have to approve your comment before it gets posted to the site.

Also predictable is your rebuttal of insults. A true scholar would have cited his contributions to greater society, his published works, etc. But oh, yea, you don't have any. Sorry.

You see, he knows nothing of the honor of being called upon to serve his country – because they never asked – and he had not the courage to step forward. Rather, he’s been relegated to a life of giving meaningless lectures on some obscure college campus to kids who could care less. He’s stuck in tenure with nowhere to go, and no one to listen to him – besides the kids. His is a world rooted in books and theory, with the great error of his life being that he never learned to discern between the real and academic worlds. Sure, he's had his finer moments, such as the time he was invited to speak at a symposium on the finer points of raising possum for human consumption at the local chapter of the FFA, but to this day he has yet to be called upon, yet to serve – and for that he is a bitter man.

One would think that having the opportunity to peek up unsuspecting coed’s skirts (as they drifted off to his monotonous and boring monologue ) for all of these years would have made him a happy camper. But no, apparently that’s not enough, not for him.

So, please forgive him.

Anyone is entitled their own opinion, but not to invent their own facts. "Eye on Korea" is an honest portrayal of those events in which I personally participated. It is factual, and a far different appraisal than the official State Department account. Read it or dont, it makes no difference to me, or to Bill Stueck, the very competant and well respected diplomatic historian at the University of Georgia, whose yeoman work on researching the facts of this period in Korean history is beyond reproach.

James V. Young, COL (Ret) U.S.A.

Author, "Eye on Korea"