THE KOREAN WAR In 1950 the communist country of North Korea invaded the republic of South Korea. The United Nations voted to send troops to support South Korea. We were in another war. And now nuclear weapons were part of the arsenal. In just a short time both the Soviet Union and the United States had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world. There was general agreement that sooner or later there would be nuclear war.
ALLEN GOES TO WAR Now it was my brother Allen’s turn to serve in the armed forces. Allen doesn’t have much to say about his service except that he spent two years in Korea and Japan. Then another adventure began. Allen was interested in opera. So when he got out of the army he decided to go to the ancient town of Perugia in northern Italy to study at the University for Foreigners. Unfortunately the Ital- ians didn’t recognize the GI Bill, which paid for
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