General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the war “a great military disaster” and “the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy.” (1) General Douglas MacArthur, the dominant US military presence in the Pacific region for 14 years, operated with Raj-like rule in Japan and Korea after World War II. Throughout its loss-win-loss-stalemated years, 1950-1953, Truman referred to the war as a “police action,” even though he and top military officers entertained the idea of dropping atomic bombs on China. President Truman never acknowledged it as a war, even though he was responsible for sending American troops to fight in it, without seeking a mandate from Congress and prior to a UN mandate. It was fought in a remote, backward country of no vital, strategic interest, and it ended in a deadlock – the kiss of death for national pride and war memory. After seeing the bodies I’ve seen, it was more like a war than anything else I’ve ever seen.”įor the early 1950s White House, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Congress and American people, the Korean War never measured up to its precedent, the Second World War. After relating his memories of serving in the war, among them covering a hand grenade with his lower body to save soldiers under his command, he remarked, “I’ve never understood why they insisted on calling it the Korean Conflict. On Veterans Day 2011, Korean War veteran Jack Tolbert spoke to a gathering at a Northern California cemetery.
The war’s especially morbid consequences for Korean women have not ended, in what has been “ 60 years of a war system.” The menace of nuclear war in spring 2013 embodies its toxic legacy. Americans at home had tired of the deadlocked war and they disconnected from it American soldiers fighting in it did not understand its historical roots. Fighting continued for 12 more hours, with even more “blood and treasure” on all sides wasted in the intense, deadly fireworks of frustrated, war-wearied soldiers. Spencer / Wikimedia)The American war in Korea lasted three years, one month and two days and ended in a stalemate on July 12, 1953, at 10:12 am. With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea.
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