"Freedom is Not Free" - Korean War, Cold War, & rising threat of Socialism/Communism

American Minute ^ | July 27, 2019 | Bill Federer

[Perseverando]

"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE" is the inscription on the Korean War Memoria l in Washington, D.C.

The Korean War started June 25, 1950.

Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands.

Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as part of a U.N. police action, fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean troops, who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the Soviet Union.

Five-star General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander, leading the United Nations Command from 1950 to 1951.

MacArthur made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind North Korean lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero in the Korean mountains, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

-in the defense of the Pusan Perimeter and Taego;

-in the landing at Inchon and the freeing of Seoul;

-in the capture of Pyongyang;

-in the Yalu River where nearly a million Communist Chinese soldiers invaded;

-in the Battles of Changjin Reservoir, Old Baldy, White Horse Mountain, Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill, T-Bone Hill, and Siberia Hill.

Harry S Truman compared Communism and Democracy in his Inaugural Address, January 20, 1949:

"We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. From this faith we will not be moved ...

[Perseverando]

Another outstanding U.S. history lesson from American Minute.

[HighSierra5]

If we’d followed MacArthur’s advice,we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.