enjoying Korean cuisine

Today at church our Korean congregation hosted us all and honored US Korean War veterans at their annual Korean Thanksgiving Dinner, yumm. Since my husband served in Korea when he was in the Army I always try to go to this event.  Today I was scheduled to take the young man I mentor out to lunch.  It turned out he wanted to attend the Korean dinner, so, in addition to enjoying a delicious lunch, we also enjoyed a free lunch.  Truly a  win win situation.  I'm always somewhat surprised at how much gratitude the South Koreans still seem to feel for the American soldiers who served there. A Korean friend wrote an interesting booklet describing her life in South Korea during and after the war.  One of my favorite of her stories involved US soldiers.  She tells that when, after months of very restricted living, it was finally safe to go out into the city, her parents took her and her sisters (all dressed in their Sunday best) out for a walk. While walking they met a couple of US soldiers who made a little fuss over how cute the girls were.  After the soldiers had walked on my friend asked her mother who, actually what, they were because they looked so strange to her. Her mother answered "They are our angels."  For years after that's what my friend thought angels looked like.