| Summary: | The Korean War is a distant memory in our lives, and the lives of the American people to follow. For many veterans that fought, struggled, and tasted their blood and the blood of a fallen comrade, it lives on forever. Today they live among us as fathers, grandfathers, and ordinary citizens; holding memories and pain for the past 50 years. The "Forgotten War," labeled by our past society. Forgotten by most ofus, but not for one and half million soldiers who served in that vicious, unstable, and violent war, which still lingers deep in their minds. (Giangreco 7) From Pusan Perimeter to the Yalu River, they fought in bitter cold temperatures. Endless hills and falling snow created tundra like environment, which infested every sole with depressing like symptoms. Huddled together in fighting positions to stay alive, they fought seemingly endless battles day and night with little rest in between. They fought on more than one front, they were up against North Koreans, Chinese, frigid temperatures, and the battle cries of there fallen friends. We call it "The Forgotten War," they call it "an experience not to be repeated". (Pratt 2)
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