Search Forum Home   Starfist: Main  Starfist 12: Firestorm  Story Vs. Real ...  Story Vs. Real Life   anonymous 0 posts Joined 1/1/0001 Story Vs. Real Life Posted: 10 May 06 12:01 PM Was this story meant to be so much like the Korean War? The way the troops were pushed back was just like Pusan, and the Marines wanting to make the amphibious landing is like Inchon. The one major difference I've seen is that the leaders are so different, since Billie is nothing like MacArthur. I had just noticed some similarities, and was wondering if it was intentional, or purely coincidental. mclark 178 posts Joined 1/27/2006 Re: Story Vs. Real Life Posted: 10 May 06 3:39 PM That's a good question!  I'll be interested to see the answer.  However, I'm sure the Pusan/Inchon correlation is not far off.  Brig. Sturgeon has been proposed to Gen. Billie that the Marines open a new front at a certain lightly-defended coastline where a Confederation Army intelligence NCO and her husband are presently in the "custody" of some rascal MP unit.  You don't spend many pages on developing characters like this, only to place them where nothing will happen.  You can be sure that Brig Sturgeon will eventually get his way.  And it really does look like Pusan/Inchon. But it certainly appears that something is going to have to happen to Gen. Billie before this can happen. DavidS 988 posts www.novelier.com Joined 1/23/2006 Re: Story Vs. Real Life Posted: 10 May 06 5:34 PM Fergalicious, You got it, we deliberately did a Pusan scenario in the beginning, and we've got a variation on Inchon in the second book, though not quite as blatant as the Pusan. I won't spoil anything by even hinting at Billie's outcome. Finucane 1932 posts Joined 1/25/2006 Re: Story Vs. Real Life Posted: 11 May 06 4:54 AM Ferg'l: You can also compare the siege of the Confederation's forces at Ft. Seymour to MacArthur's army in the Philippines.  In fact the troops refer to the fort on Pohick Bay as "Bataan," since they know their history, as do we and we know it has a tendency to repeat itself.  Iraq might be a repeat of another war we got ourselves into.  And so it goes. When I worked in the Joint Staff I found an original copy of the telex Jonathan Wainwright sent to President Roosevelt announcing he was surrendering Corregidor.  I made a copy and had it around here for  years.  It is the most noble but at the same time heartrending document I've ever read and that sort of thing tends to stick with you.  Look it up one day and read it for yourself.  The original ends in the middle of a sentence.  We think it's important Americans never forget things like Corregidor.  You might run across something like that in one of our Starfist novels.  All of human history is grist for our mill. Dan Finucane 1932 posts Joined 1/25/2006 Re: Story Vs. Real Life Posted: 11 May 06 5:06 AM MC:  I'm old enough that I distinctly remember events of the Korean War and I remember listening to the English-language broadcasts from Radio Peking (that's what we called it in those days), particularly this woman with a British-accented voice saying that the victorious people's army of North Korea would push the American "bandits" into the sea. Dan  Page 1 of 10 123...10Next    Starfist: Main  Starfist 12: Firestorm  Story Vs. Real ... Flat View Tree View Oldest To Newest Newest To Oldest