Local veteran recounts Korean War experience

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With all the recent press and talk about activities in Korea, we were talking around the coffee table lately about how many of our local folks saw action during the Korean War.

The conflict escalated into open warfare in June of 1950 when North Korean forces, being supported by China and the Soviet Union, moved into the South. The U.N. Security Council then called this an “invasion and act of war” and dispatched U.N. forces to Korea, of which the United States provided more than 85 percent of the U.N. military personnel.

With all the recent press and talk about activities in Korea, we were talking around the coffee table lately about how many of our local folks saw action during the Korean War.

The conflict escalated into open warfare in June of 1950 when North Korean forces, being supported by China and the Soviet Union, moved into the South. The U.N. Security Council then called this an “invasion and act of war” and dispatched U.N. forces to Korea, of which the United States provided more than 85 percent of the U.N. military personnel.

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