Well, I'm Not Sure What To Say

A deliberate policy, not an error. Too bad for the dead. & again, it seems this always happens when an institution investigates itself.  There is no value in truth.

More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war's chaotic early days has come to light -- a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.

The letter -- dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 -- is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government.

''If refugees do appear from north of US lines they will receive warning shots, and if they then persist in advancing they will be shot,'' wrote Ambassador John J. Muccio, in his message to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk.