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The Fighting Irish of the Korean War

By Ned Forney
Marines manning an outpost in Korea, 1952. The static, bloody, trench warfare resembled that of WWI.

As a young boy, I remember how proud my grandfather, Patrick J. Sullivan, was of his Irish ancestry. As the son of an Irish immigrant from County Kerry, he was also proud of the USA and everything it stood for. From his humble beginnings in Holyoke, Massachusetts, to his international career as a US Public…

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