The Korean War began on June 25th, 1950, when North Korean soldiers invaded South Korea. US President Harry Truman pressed the UN to quickly approve a “police action” to aid South Korea—an international effort spearheaded by the US. The brutal conflict that followed led to millions of Korean deaths and close to 140,000 American casualties. […]
A Zoom Conversation with Ryan Walkowski and Ed Gruber 6/26/25 @ 7PM ET on ZOOM “If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, the unanimous choice would have been Korea.” —Dean Atcheson, Secretary of State, 1949-1953 “I had to […]
Author’s note: this story was originally published in a print-only journal, Newtown Literary. I They’ve got the whole regiment lined up at the Port of Tacoma, 22 July, 1950. Fifteen hundred men shouldering weapons and duffels, numbers chalked on their helmets, shuffling toward the General Darby. Hesh looks up in awe: the troopship is a horizontal […]