Koreas
Step by step, veterans advocate aims to ensure Korean War sacrifices aren’t forgotten
What began as one man’s plan to walk nearly 400 miles across South Korea grew into a monthlong remembrance that brought together veterans, students, military groups and local communities to honor those who fought in the Korean War.
Seoul hosts first reciprocal repatriation ceremony for Korean War fallen
The reciprocal repatriation ceremony between the U.S. and South Korea was the first in their decades-long effort to account for those still missing from the conflict.
He died in a Korean War prison camp. Now Emil Kapaun could become the US military’s first saint.
Kapaun’s capture and death at the hands of Chinese forces during the Korean War earned him the Medal of Honor and a lasting reputation among generations of soldiers and chaplains.
For some military families, adoption forges bonds that span borders and generations
American military families adopt at a lower rate than the overall U.S. population, but those that do find military life — particularly overseas — can shape family experiences in distinctive ways.
700 hail King in Osan march
More than 700 American military men of all races and ranks marched in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Sunday, climaxing a weekend tribute here to the slain civil rights leader.
Retired Army officer honors her great-grandfather, UN troops at key Korean battlefield
Julie MacKnyght, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, toured Chipyong-ni, where U.S. and French troops under the United Nations Command held off waves of Chinese attacks in 1951.
The shoeshine boys of Seoul
On a cold March day in 1952, some American soldiers whose rifles indicated they might have just come from the front, paused on a street in Seoul and gave candy bars to hungry children.