Posted on 06/25/2025 8:24:33 AM PDT by DFG
On June 25, Korea commemorates the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. On this day of 1950, the war broke out by North Korea’s invasion across the 38th parallel.
The Korean War was not fought by Koreans alone. Over 1.9 million soldiers from 22 United Nations member states fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Republic of Korea in defense of freedom and democracy.
Though more than 70 years have passed since the signing of the Armistice Agreement in 1953, the Korean Peninsula remains divided. As we remember the Korean War today, let us not forget the sacrifices of Korean War veterans, who fought for Korea’s peace, freedom, and democracy.
That day I remember my mom saying “Dear God, it’s only been five years and we’re back in a war.”
Thank you. Here is a really sweet and light hearted video of a UK veteran of the war, eating Korean food for the first time in decades at a restaurant in London:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuuVzvWhqJs
Lost a cousin on the USS Walke, 12 June 1951.
https://www.randomconnections.com/remembering-the-walke/
The nation has never recovered from those 21 years of incubation, cultivation, nurturing and promotion of marxism.
Actually 20 years
My Dad who was in the Pacific for 4 years came home and stayed in the reserves. He once told me he got out of the reserves 6 mos before Korea. He would have been called back and shipped to another war.
Truman was too much of a stupid wimp to let McCarthy gi in there and blow up those Commie bastards!
At least FDR was succeeded by Truman and not by Henry Wallace.
And idiot Democrats today might want to know Congress did not give a declaration of war for Korea.
Douglas MacArthur, not Joseph McCarthy.
you are right.
Yep but even then, Truman let China go communist.
The Communist takeover of China was one of the worst developments since 1945, maybe the worst, but I’m not sure we could have stopped it. If hundreds of millions of Chinese just allowed it to happen, I don’t see how the US could have changed things—even a large army probably would have been useless, and would the American public have supported that, so soon after WWII? The Chinese may have concluded that Chiang Kai-shek had lost the “Mandate of Heaven.”
Thanks for the story...I had no idea that North Koreans managed to damage a US warship with a mine and kill many sailors...
Very touching.
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