More than seventy years after the conflict ended, the Korean War is referred to by many as "the Forgotten War". Sandwiched ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — June 25 may seem like a random date to most folks. It’s someone’s birthday or a wedding anniversary. But to the families of 36,914 who died in the Korean War that started on ...
VICKI: DICK RYDER’S ENTIRE LIFE SURROUNDS THE STATE CAPITOL. >> I’M A LIFETIME SACRAMENTAN, WITHIN THREE MILES RIGHT HERE AS A MATTER OF FACT. VICKI: WELL, ALMOST HIS ENTIRE LIFE. >> IT WAS TWO YEARS ...
Twice. Nearly had a knee blown off by a mortar round. Survived a plane crash. Korean War veteran Hub Johnson walks around with eight pieces of shrapnel in his body and a scar, stretching from mid-shin ...
More than 1.7 million Americans fought in Korea, including an 18-year-old from the other side of the Bay Bridge, the youngest of five children of a $6-a-week cemetery caretaker. More than 36,500 ...