This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to Episode 175 of Real Cool History for Kids. This episode is for Ike Bailey, who wanted to hear the incredible true story of a horse who became a real United States Marine during the Korean War.

Animals in history are some of my very favorite kinds of history stories, you

guys. And this story is about one of my absolute favorite animals, horses. But this wasn't

just any horse. This was a horse so brave that she went down in history for it.

Our hero horse was born in Korea around 1948 and given the name Aachim Hai, Acheem Hai, which is Korean for Flame of the Morning.

The new little Philly grew up to be a small Mongolian mare.

She was sturdy and tough and incredibly strong.

Later, Acheem Hai would become known as Sergeant Reckless.

That's what this story is all about.

But before we begin that story, let's go and find out what was happening around that time.

We need to go to the Korean War.

Now, I told you guys about this war back in episode 102.

But just as a review, let's remember what happened to cause that war.

First, go grab your globe or map so you can see where we are talking about.

We're going to locate Korea. First, let's find China and Japan.

Okay? Now, slide your finger down until it's resting on a peninsula, sort of between those two countries. Do you see it?

Do you see how it's divided into two parts? That's Korea. After World War II ended in 1945,

Korea was divided along the 38th parallel. The northern half became communist and was supported by China

and the Soviet Union, both giant communist nations who wanted to spread their kind of government

as far as they could. And then the southern half was supported by the United States and the other

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