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Old 09-06-2008, 09:49 PM   #1
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Ever hear of the Pueblo Incident? December will be the 40th anniversary of the release of the crew of the USS Pueblo. In January, 1968, North Korea attacked and captured the USS Pueblo and crew. We said that the spy ship was in International waters, but North Korea claimed it was in their's.

There were diplomatic relations to free the crew, but with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the USS Pueblo was put on the back burner.

It was a year before I got drafted, and I used to read the paper every day to find out what was going on in Vietnam. The picture I remember most of the Pueblo crew was a photo on the front page of the New York Times. The crew was sitting and standing in their prisoner uniforms and some were giving the finger to the North Korean photographer. Not outright, but slyly. http://archive.redstate.com/stories/...good_luck_sign The NY Times didn't want to say that the crew was being defiant, as the Times was probably delivered to Korea and the crew would be tortured.

So the Times very diplomatically said that the crew was giving the "Hawaiian Good Luck Sign." This occurred in several pictures until they were found out.
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