Chinese fortified NKorea in conflict

Who really is responsible for the current situation with North Korea, the Russians and the Red Chinese? The Soviet Union equipped the North Koreans with tanks and MIGs; and when U.S. Gen. Douglas McArthur was about to turn the peninsula into one Korea, the Chinese sent in half a million men.

The reason there are two Koreas is because the Communist bloc kept it so.

Republican-controlled American businesses shipped U.S. jobs to China to keep wages low, increase profits and break American unions; that’s just business.

Now China and its agent North Korea have the financial wherewithal to export weapons technology, build overseas naval bases, increase military spending, build artificial islands in international waters, and try to defy and undermine us at every turn.

I say to the Republican industrial magnates that you reap what you sow. Maybe that’s what the war profiteers want.

Larry Bryant Lancaster

But what were Hitler’s feelings regarding black German citizens? I asked that of a young black German woman I met when I was a member of the 1553 Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion, 7th Army. The young lady’s answer was right on point: Hitler did not think of black Germans as he did of black Americans.

Our unit had just built a ponton bridge over the Rhine River and we were riding along, in convoy, on the Autoban Highway to our next encounter.

Marching along the highway in the opposite direction was a column of defeated German soldiers guarded by American military police in Jeeps, and interspersed in that column were black German soldiers, which prompted my question.

The young woman told me that her brother was an officer in the German Army. She didn’t know if he was dead or alive.

Some of the black Germans were migrants and some were children of black American soldiers from World War I. My mother warned me to be careful, because the young woman might be one that my dad left behind from World War I. Whoops!

The black American Olympians returned to an America where race relations had not changed. It is sad to say, but we black soldiers of World War II experienced the same.

John B. Williams Buffalo Soldier veteran World War II Columbus