Recently I met an old friend, Bruce Snow, who arrived in Korea a month before me in 1965. We talked of old times in Korea and recalled the perilous night in January 1968, when our house and the neighborhood in Cheongun-dong was shook by gunfire and night-time flares that lit up the night sky like it was day. It was the North Korean raid on the Blue House on Jan. 21, 1968.

I thought it was a memorable event sufficient to warrant making a video on my YouTube channel and I soon discovered that the story has two parts — the telling of what happened on that day and the reaction to telling the story today.

Part one — it was around 10 in the evening. We were having some popcorn and getting ready to turn in when we heard the pop pop pop of gunfire and the ratatatat of machine gun fire. We went outside to see what was going on, and suddenly, the night sky was lit up with flares that made it possible to see things as if it were midday.

My friend Bruce recalled that day remembering he was one of our drivers, and he was commissioned to go pick up the daughter of our director, a girl........

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