Tomorrow is the fifty-fifth anniversary of the start of the Korean War.

I fear the Korean War soon will be relegated to the same status as the Spanish-American War: A mostly forgotten footnote in our history.

I hope I am wrong.


June 25, 1950

The North Korean People's Army (NKPA) crossed the 38th Parallel at 0500 hours with 60,000 troops to launch an all-out offensive on the Republic of Korea. The United Nations Security Council, in the absence of the Soviet Union, adopted a resolution calling for the withdrawal of North Korean forces to the parallel.