I was drafted during the Korean War.
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War ...
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968...
Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the ...
