Yesterday while showing my granddaughters around Pt Loma and the beautiful Ft Rosecran's National Cemetery, we came upon the resting place of Lt General Edward Craig, USMC. As I searched back through my Marine Corps history lessons of many years ago, I realized that it was 62 years ago this summer that then Brig Gen Eddie Craig and his First Provisional Marine Brigade sailed from San Diego to the Republic of Korea.

They were dispatched at the urgent request of Gen Douglas MacArthur after it became apparent that the poorly trained, and poorly equipped, occupation troops sent from Japan were unable to stop the onslaught of the battle hardened North Korean invaders and found themselves pushed into a small pocket at the tip of the Korean Penninsula.