The KOREAN WAR
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when 75,000 North Korean soldiers marched over the 38th parallel, the line separating the Pro-Western republic South Korea and the Soviet backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the North. This was the first military action of the Cold War. The fighting ended on July 27th, 1963 when an armistice was signed.
The Korean War is also known as the Forgotten War because it is wedged in between World War 2 and Vietnam, so it often gets overlooked.
Korea, The Chosen Place, a poem
Korea
Ravished by war, laid to waste
All United Nations there engaged
In another history Page.
Korea, tis not a beauty site
To see by day or by night.
The eye beholds only the gloom
Of a country buried in war's tomb.
Korea, it's been torn up
and torn down;
Marched up
and marched down.
Korea, blood shed, land and mountains
Have been bathed by youthful fountains.
Brave men here have gone to their reward
Perishing 'neath the sword.
Korea, twas not a war they say;
Only a police action day by day,
A testing place
For the human race.
Korea, two ideals clashing
Communism and democracy smashing;
The U.N.'s firm stand
Against the hammer red hand.
Korea, a question of peace there,
A question of peace everywhere
Soon it may be inflamed
Again in blood and war's shame.
Korea, a prayer of the free
That inpeace here we may see
The sword no more to rise
On any land or any skies.
---S/Sgt. Irvin V. Worden
Korea
Ravished by war, laid to waste
All United Nations there engaged
In another history Page.
Korea, tis not a beauty site
To see by day or by night.
The eye beholds only the gloom
Of a country buried in war's tomb.
Korea, it's been torn up
and torn down;
Marched up
and marched down.
Korea, blood shed, land and mountains
Have been bathed by youthful fountains.
Brave men here have gone to their reward
Perishing 'neath the sword.
Korea, twas not a war they say;
Only a police action day by day,
A testing place
For the human race.
Korea, two ideals clashing
Communism and democracy smashing;
The U.N.'s firm stand
Against the hammer red hand.
Korea, a question of peace there,
A question of peace everywhere
Soon it may be inflamed
Again in blood and war's shame.
Korea, a prayer of the free
That inpeace here we may see
The sword no more to rise
On any land or any skies.
---S/Sgt. Irvin V. Worden