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To honor veterans for our freedom is an everyday occurrence at “Americas Most Patriotic Coffee Shop”
November 9th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,History,Korean Conflict,Living,Vietnam War,World War II | Read More »
Since our nations founding, America’s Veterans have fought for our liberties contained within our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
October 24th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Korean Conflict,Of Interest,Top 10,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs,Vietnam War | Read More »
Annually America’s warrior tradition is commemorated in major media editorials and op-eds, honoring fallen men and women for reasons not explained.
May 30th, 2011 | Posted in Civil War,Cold War,Editors Picks,Gulf War,Korean Conflict,Peace,Vietnam War,World War I,World War II | Read More »
Private First Class Charlie Johnson, a Browning automatic rifleman with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was killed in action June 12, 1953, after an eight-day battle at Outpost Harry
May 18th, 2011 | Posted in History,Korean Conflict | Read More »
The U.S. criminal apparatus extreme violations and assaults on human self-dignity and global citizenry decency is unprecedented in documented historical recorded events.
May 13th, 2011 | Posted in Civil War,Cold War,Gulf War,History,Korean Conflict,Vietnam War,World War I,World War II | Read More »
The Korean War, a.k.a. the “Unknown War,” was, in fact, headline news at the time it was being fought(1950-53). Given the Cold War hatreds of the combatants, though, a great deal of the reportage was propaganda, and much of what should have been told was never told. News of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians was routinely suppressed and the full story of the horrific suffering of the Korean people—who lost 3-million souls of a total population of 23-million— has yet to be told in full.
March 16th, 2011 | Posted in History,Korean Conflict | Read More »
What makes the most fantastic and undocumented war-launching and war-prolonging lies credible are differences and prejudices, against others and in favor of our own. Without religious bigotry, racism, and patriotic jingoism, wars would be harder to sell.
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Civil War,Cold War,Gulf War,History,Korean Conflict,Vietnam War,World War I,World War II | Read More »
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam July 23, 2010 Yesterday, I arrived in Vietnam and I was honored to be here to help celebrate the 15th anniversary of the normalization of our diplomatic relations. The day before, I was in Seoul, my third visit to Korea as [...]
July 25th, 2010 | Posted in Korean Conflict,Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
By Asif Haroon Raja The US is the strongest military and economic power of the world but its behavior is amateurish and childish and doesn’t correspond to its stature, strength and capability. After 2nd World War, it never clashed directly with an adversary matching its capabilities but always attacked very weak foes. Like a typical [...]
July 14th, 2010 | Posted in 9/11,AfPak,Cold War,Korean Conflict,Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
A Northglenn, CO man will soon be presented all the awards he deserves for actions that took place September 21, 1951. Sergeant Leo Slade, 80, a father, twice widowed, and now recognized US Army war hero feels he has lived a good life and now has reason to celebrate with his current crowd of buddies, this time with honor.
May 20th, 2010 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
The Associated Press is reporting this morning that today the North and South Korean Navies exchanged gunfire in waters marking the western boundaries of their disputed territories. The piece is entitled NKorea, SKorea exchange fire near disputed border . Officially, the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace agreement so techinically we are [...]
January 27th, 2010 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN OUR DISCUSSION SECTION A READER TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE IN KOREA 1950 By Bobby "Y" for Veterans Today Duffster: You invited me to write about my experiences in the Korean War which I am not going to do to any extent. War is hell in all wars. I am going to write [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
A Moving Testimony to a Community’s Love for one of their Fallen Sons Maine Misses A Veteran by Ken Buckley, Bangor Maine I will forever be astounded at seeing this tractor where Edgar left it almost 60 years ago. For the few remaining islanders who knew Edgar, there are hundreds more from the mainland who have [...]
October 13th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
In a recent news story about Korean War Veteran Jim Taylor being awarded 100% VA Disability and a retroactive check for $264,000, Tampa based WFTS ABC Action News and their Consumer Reporter Jackie Callaway falsified from what source they received the news story and thereby plagiarizing, exploiting, and slighting Terry Richards, a 60-year old Vietnam [...]
September 9th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, on the 56th anniversary of National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 2632, the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), adds National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day to the list of days on which the display of the flag of the [...]
July 28th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION Fifty-six years after the signing of the Military Armistice Agreement at Panmunjom, Americans remain grateful for the courage and sacrifice of our Korean War veterans. More than 600,000 United States and allied combatants lost their lives in Korea during the 3 years of bitter warfare [...]
July 26th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
By MICHAEL BURY Tribune Chronicle correspondent AUSTINTOWN – Area veterans gathered at the Korean War Memorial in Austintown to remember those who died in the "forgotten war." Fifty members of the Korean War Veterans Association Chapter 137 laid 120 roses to honor the 120 men from Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties who died during the [...]
June 29th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
by Rees Lloyd Lest we forget the American veterans who served, over 35,000 giving their lives: The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the communist Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, under the communist dictator Kim Il Sung, without warning, invaded the capitalist Republic of South Korea by sending waves of troops across [...]
June 26th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
News 3 hd- For the third time in our city, Korean War Veterans from across the country were honored in Las Vegas Sunday night. And News 3′s Tiffany DeLeon reports that while some may call it the "forgotten war", these veterans are determined never to forget. While more than 900 people from all over the [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
The United States is "fully prepared for any contingencies" regarding a potential missile launch toward US territory by North Korea, President Barack Obama said in an interview to be aired Monday. "This administration — and our military — is fully prepared for any contingencies," Obama told CBS when asked about the possibility that North Korea [...]
June 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
"We now have our brother home." By Les Blumenthal | McClatchy Newspapers ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY — Under blue skies and with military honors, Cpl. Robert Schoening was buried at Arlington National Cemetery nearly 60 years after his front-line unit was overrun by Chinese troops in Korea and he was declared missing in action and presumed [...]
June 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
by Blaine Harden North Korea announced Wednesday that it is no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War, the latest and most profound diplomatic aftershock from the country’s latest nuclear test two days earlier. North Korea also warned that it would respond "with a powerful military strike" should its ships be [...]
May 27th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
AP LAS VEGAS – Col. Harold E. Fischer, an ace fighter pilot whose high-profile captivity became a symbol of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China at the end of the Korean War, has died. He was 83. Fischer died April 30 after suffering complications from back surgery, his companion Tsai Lan Gerth said. As [...]
May 9th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
He was the first soldier from the California Army National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division – "Los Angeles’ Own" – to be killed after the division deployed to the Korean War. And today the memory and sacrifice of Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Kaiser will be honored at a special ceremony in Inglewood, where Kaiser graduated from high school. [...]
May 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI — A Korean-American man who served prison time for trying to broker the sale of sarin nerve gas bombs to Iran has been indicted on charges of attempting to export advanced rocket technology to South Korea. The federal indictment filed Wednesday in Miami charges 68-year-old Juwhan Yun (Joo-’WAHN Yun) of Short [...]
April 29th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
AFP North Korea announced on Tuesday it would quit six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart its atomic weapons programme in protest at the UN’s condemnation of its rocket launch. The communist nation said Security Council discussion of the launch, which the North insists sent a satellite into orbit, was "an unbearable insult" to its people. [...]
April 28th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
North Korea has sent up a rocket it says is carrying a satellite, despite international appeals not to go ahead with the launch. Its neighbours and Western powers have responded with strongly worded statements. SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN LEE DONG-KWAN The government cannot but express disappointment and regret over North Korea’s reckless act of [...]
April 5th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
AP… SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has begun fueling a long-range rocket for an impending launch, a news report said today, as President Barack Obama warned that the liftoff would be a "provocative act" that would generate a U.N. Security Council response. North Korea has said it will send a communications satellite into orbit [...]
April 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
The Korean War is one of the most sorely overlooked events in modern American history. An eloquent remembrance of a father who served in the Korean War. The Korean War is one of the most sorely overlooked events in modern American history. In response, Michelle Myers Berg’s one-person memoir, "Blue Collar Diaries," which opened [...]
April 1st, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says North Korea is likely to launch a rocket soon, and Washington would not attempt to stop it. "If we had an aberrant missile, one that looked like it was headed for Hawaii, we might consider it, but I don’t think we have any plans to do anything like that [...]
March 29th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
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