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“A historical narrative based on my family’s experiences
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FIGHT ON THE KOREAN HILLSIDE
identity portfolio
By Seung-Ho Yang
FIGHT ON THE KOREAN HILLSIDE Is there anyone outside? I wondered to myself. I peeked my head out
from around the rock. It’s too dark to see anything, I thought. Is it
safe to move our location? Or should we just stay? I think we can take
a risk to move our location to that trench next to us. “Min-‐Joon!
Follow me,” I yelled. My heart pounded as I slipped into the narrow
gap in the earth. I wonder if Min-‐Joon is following me.
I looked around the dark hillside of Yong San, covered with
short grass that swayed in the winds. Huge craters, humungous
boulders and dead trees blocked our vision. The trench we were in
was big enough for three people.
“Do you see anything?” I asked Min-‐Joon, a 16 year old kid I
befriended from the police army. He was poking his head out from
our hole.
“Of course, I can’t see anything,” Min-‐Joon yelled over the
gunshots. “It’s like, 1 AM! Can’t we just turn the lights on?”
“Don’t you remember?” I asked. “If we turn lights on, everyone
will see us! Even the North Koreans!” But even I thought not turning
the lights on was unfair. Maybe a little light will do? I thought, but
that idea disappeared quickly when an explosion banged loudly
from the other side of the hill, where I knew the North Koreans
were.
“Why did you join this police army?” Min–Joon asked.
“Our country needs to win. I can’t see the North Koreans take our
country,” I answered. “I mean like this war between north and south
has been going for months. This has to be stopped.”
“Yeah, you’re right. We can’t let them win,” Min-‐Joon agreed. “Kim Il
Sung has to be stopped!”then he shot his gun once more.
“I wonder how all this happened Min-‐Joon,” I said. “All I know
that the Soviet Union and is providing materials to North Korea and
USA is sending solders to help us.”
“Oh, and you should hear this,” Min-‐Joon said, “you know tanks
right?”
“Yeah, what about them?”
“The North Koreans have them while we don’t! Isn’t that
stupid? How are we supposed to Xight their tanks?”
“Man, thats so un-‐”
BANG! The loud gunshot rang in our ears. Then the noise
disappeared as fast as it was heard. Nobody said anything. There
was another horrifying bang. Min-‐Joon held his gun up and hugged it
like a teddy bear. My heart pounded like a drum. It beat so loudly
even Min-‐Joon could’ve heard it.
I heaved my gun towards the sound of the gunshot. My Xingers
closed on the handle, the only thing that would help me defend
against an enemy.
“That sounded like it came from the rock,” I whispered. Min-‐
Joon nodded. We didn’t need to talk. We both held our guns up and
busted out from our trench without looking back.
“Min-‐Joon, wait,” I yelled. “We’re at our base.” We stopped and
leaned next to a tree. Home territory, I thought. I was back.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I am writing this narrative because I wanted to show everyone how kids felt when they were in war. I also wanted to show he
kinds of landscape the koreans were fighting and a few facts about the korean war. The characters like Min-Joon is not real but
the main character is. He also is my grandfather. Now he lives in Korea, Soul. It has been said that he had joined a police army
instead of a real army because he was to young. So I decided to interview him so I can make a Historical narrative.
My family treemy potential grandfather.
(main character)
Me
RESEARCH NOTES
1.Chinese were helping North Korea because when the UN army pushed
the North Koreans army all the way to the border of China, they got
scared that the UN army will invade China too so China decided to help
North Korea push back the UN army back to the 38th parallel line.(this
was called the 1.4 retreat)
2.Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, the United
Kingdom, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the
Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey and other countries (21 in
total including USA) helped South Korea. they helped South Korea under
the United Nations Organization.
3.North Korea had 130 thousand armies, airplanes, artilleries and tanks.
South Korea had 95 thousand soldiers a few airplanes, heavy guns and
no tanks. When the UN forces were supporting, the total number of army
was 1.1 million, But the army in North Korea increased to 260 thousand,
plus 780 thousand Chines armies.
4.The war was pushed back and forth during the war (aka 1.4 retreat). first
the North Korea army pushed back the South Koreans all the way to a
city called Pusan, then the UN forces arrived and pushed the North
Koreans all the way back to the Chinese border. Then the chinese
combined forces with North and pushed the UN armies all the way to the
38th parallel line.
5.When the Japanese lost World War II, they retreated from Korea. The
Koreans needed a government so Russia had to take care of North
Korea and USA took South Korea. Russia was a Communist party and
USA was a democracy party. having different thoughts about the
government, both countries were under conflict so the North and South
Koreans had to fight each other with Russia and USA.
6.There where 341 thousand armies that helped south korea, where 88%
were Americans.
Reflection
This helped me learn that my grandfather was in an army when he
was 16. Doing projects like this is important because I can learn about
my family’s history. I enjoyed interviewing my grandfather and doing
the research. The challenge that I had to face was making the
narrative because I have poor grammar skills. I overcame this by
getting help from my teacher. Yes, I have grown as a writer because I
used more proper grammar and added more dialogue than the last
narrative. The advice I will give to the future student is to have a
teacher help you.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Warhttp://thehistoyprofessor.us/bin/histprof/misc/korea.html