80 Years of Stars and Stripes Pacific

A family consisting of a father, mother and five children group together to pose on a grass lawn, with trees in the background.

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.

A sign welcoming Lyndon B. Johnson to Seoul is carried by students awaiting the president's arrival at City Hall Plaza.

Rip-roaring ROK crowd welcomes Johnson

President and Mrs. Johnson got a rousing Texas-style welcome here Monday.

Lewis Millett describes his Korean War experiences during a 1975 visit to Osan Air Base.

Medal of Honor recipient recalls Korean War bayonet attack

"I'm proud to be back. I get sentimental, I lost a lot of friends over here, and it brings back bad memories as well as good;" said the tall mustachioed figure with the star-studded pale blue ribbon of the Medal of Honor around his neck as he looked over the area he captured from Communists nearly 25 years ago.

Raymond Burr, second from right, gets an explanation of the DMZ from Cmdr. Willis R. Hearne, second from left, the U.N. Command joint duty officer.

Raymond Burr visits soldiers in Korean DMZ area

The big man walked up to a sergeant on duty at a mountain-top outpost and stuck out his hand. "Hello sergeant," he said. "I'm Raymond Burr."

Rear Adm. John V. Smith reads a list of charges to North Korean Gen. Chung Kook Pak across the conference table at the 266 meeting of the Military Armistice Commission in April, 1968, days after four U.N. Command soldiers were killed in an ambush at the DMZ.

N. Korea tries to provoke war, says U.N. Command

U.S. Rear Adm. John V. Smith, senior negotiator for the United Nations Command (UNC) denounced Communist North Korea Thursday for "war provocation of the most serious magnitude."

A North Korean soldier on guard duty during the 417th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission glares across the border in February, 1983.

The Spirit of Panmunjom is frosty

Camp Carroll: It's big, and still growing

The newest U.S. military installation in the Republic of Korea, bearing a price tag in excess of $17 million, has been under construction since 1959 and is scheduled for completion in 1967.

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