{"id":76136,"date":"2020-09-26T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/remember-the-lives-a-forgotten-war-took\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:38:01","slug":"remember-the-lives-a-forgotten-war-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-the-lives-a-forgotten-war-took\/","title":{"rendered":"#Remember the lives a &#8216;Forgotten War&#8217; took"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23d43b316a9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23d43b316a9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-the-lives-a-forgotten-war-took\/#%E2%80%9CRemember_the_lives_a_%E2%80%98Forgotten_War_took%E2%80%9C\" >&#8220;#Remember the lives a &#8216;Forgotten War&#8217; took&#8220;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRemember_the_lives_a_%E2%80%98Forgotten_War_took%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8220;<strong>#Remember the lives a &#8216;Forgotten War&#8217; took<\/strong>&#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>In 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur quoted an old Army ballad in his farewell address to Congress: \u201cOld soldiers never die. They just fade away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, it seems the veterans of that conflict have faded faster than most.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy years ago today, a company of US Marines pulled down the North Korean flags flying in front of the South Korean capitol building, helping our allies recapture Seoul for the first time. Yet, so far, there has been barely a peep about the anniversary in the press or in Washington. The war that raged from 1950 to 1953, killing more than 36,000 Americans and millions of Koreans, continues to live up to its reputation as the forgotten war.<\/p>\n<p>The war is also \u201csometimes remembered as \u2018die for a tie,\u2019 because it ended rather unsatisfactorily in an armistice, not in a unified Korea,\u201d said Kathleen Stephens, who served as the American ambassador to South Korea a decade ago and now chairs The Korea Society in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Americans hate a stalemate. We will play extra innings throughout the night, if necessary, to avoid a baseball <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> ending in a tie. Yet after three years of combat against North Korean and Chinese forces armed with Soviet equipment, the boundary between the two Koreas stands more or less where it began before the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>After North Korea invaded the South on June 25, 1950, Americans\u2019 support for the war effort was initially high \u2014 but wavered as it dragged on. President Harry S. Truman relied on a decision by the United Nations to enforce South Korea\u2019s sovereignty without seeking a war declaration from Congress, which set a questionable precedent that contributed to his ouster from the White House in 1952.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16356671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16356671 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-american-soilders.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-american-soilders.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-american-soilders.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-american-soilders.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-american-soilders.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" alt=\"Some 36,000 US soldiers lost their lives defending South Korea from the North in a war America would rather forget. But the South remembers our sacrifices, which helped shape their democracy.\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some 36,000 US soldiers lost their lives defending South Korea from the North in a war America would rather forget. But the South remembers our sacrifices, which helped shape their democracy.<span class=\"credit\">Carl Mydans\/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hollywood, which had whipped up support for WWII, made only a handful of films about the Korean War, and many of those were ambivalent. It\u2019s hard to see much glory in the death of William Holden\u2019s pilot at the end of 1954\u2019s \u201cThe Bridges at Toko-Ri,\u201d for example, as he dies in a Korean ditch after being shot down, having bitterly complained that he had already done his duty in the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>Yet without the sacrifices made 70 years ago by American soldiers, who fought alongside allies under the United Nations flag, South Korea would not exist in its present state. In 1950, North Korea had more heavy industry than in the South \u2014 a legacy from the long-standing Japanese occupation that ended in 1945 \u2014 and was better equipped for war. \u201cHad the US not intervened, I think Korea would have been unified under Kim Il-sung,\u201d said Stephens of Kim Jong-un\u2019s grandfather, who was North Korea\u2019s leader at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Without the war, South Korea wouldn\u2019t be the prosperous and democratic nation that has grown in recent decades to become the world\u2019s 12th largest economy. South Korea now ranks among the top 25 percent of countries in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">global press freedom index<\/a> of Reporters Without Borders. In April, the country demonstrated its commitment to democracy by holding a national election shortly after the global pandemic struck and it also boasts one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/09\/16\/coronavirus-covid-economic-impact-recession-south-korea-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">best track records<\/a> of fighting COVID-19.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16356690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16356690 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/kim-II-sung.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/kim-II-sung.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/kim-II-sung.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/kim-II-sung.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/kim-II-sung.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" alt=\"Without the war, Korea would have been unified under Kim Il-sung.\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Without the war, Korea would have been unified under Kim Il-sung.<span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s more, without South Korea, we wouldn\u2019t have Samsung or K-pop. We wouldn\u2019t have the eminently watchable Academy Award-winning film \u201cParasite,\u201d which is filled with metaphors of the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>While many Americans enjoy these South Korean exports, South Koreans themselves hold one of the most consistently positive attitudes toward Americans, with 77 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2020\/01\/08\/u-s-image-generally-favorable-around-the-world-but-mixed-in-some-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">telling Pew Research<\/a> that they viewed the US favorably \u2014 the fourth-highest ranking in the world after Israel, the Philippines and Poland. Support for the nearly 30,000 US forces stationed in South Korea remains high, too, with nine out of 10 of their citizens expressing support for the defensive alliance in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechicagocouncil.org\/publication\/lcc\/while-positive-toward-us-alliance-south-koreans-want-counter-trumps-demands-host-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">December survey<\/a> by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>I felt this gratitude firsthand two years ago during a visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmck.or.kr\/eng\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">United Nations Memorial Cemetery<\/a> in Korea, where a Korean woman thanked me when she learned that I was an American. To be clear, I had no family who served in the war and I was there on a press tour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16356700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16356700 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-veterans-memorial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-veterans-memorial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-veterans-memorial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-veterans-memorial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/korean-war-veterans-memorial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" alt=\"American soldiers' struggles are remembered at Statues of soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US soldiers\u2019 struggles are remembered at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.<span class=\"credit\">Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seoul has shown its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciation of the war veterans who secured their liberty in more tangible ways. The federal government has paid to bring veterans back to South Korea, many of them for the first time since 1953, to participate in anniversary ceremonies. When the pandemic hit, it sent 500,000 face masks to American veterans of the Korean War to help them fend off the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The 70th anniversary of the Korean War is not a trivial date. As the ranks of its veterans continue to thin, their time to stand up and be recognized is running out. South Koreans have not forgotten their sacrifice. Nor should we.<\/p>\n<p><em>J. Alex Tarquinio is past national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a German Marshall Fund fellowship recipient to cover another divided land, Cyprus. She has made two reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s to South Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparitech.com\/blog\/vpn-privacy\/internet-censorship-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Censorship 2022: A Global Map of Internet Restrictions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/26\/korean-war-70th-anniversary-remember-the-lives-a-forgotten-war-took\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Remember the lives a &#8216;Forgotten War&#8217; took&#8220; In 1951, Gen. 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