Korean war Quotes

“Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.”

“The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.”

“As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.”

“After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.”

“As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.”

“The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.”

“All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.”

“In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.”

“Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence - no American likes being pushed around - with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history.”