US Army Signal Corps, 1st getting shelled by the PLA on Matsu, then working for some secure joint-service comms operation near Taipei. Dad claimed to have relayed the news of the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the mainland, but who knows. He then went to Berlin for a similar role. Big-time Cold Warrior.
"Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no-good low-down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that, imagine that.
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
Out of the state … of China"
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Did he relay the first (real) incident or the second (false) one, I wonder? Either way he must have been near the heart of it.
That no-good low-down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that, imagine that.
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
Out of the state … of China"