Korean War: The Forgotten War

The Korean War is often called The Forgotten War. it's between America’s biggest war, World War II and Vietnam War, our longest war. Korea sometimes gets overlooked at times, it needs to be remembered about the conflict that began 50 years ago The Korean War, which ended just over 60 years ago, never resonated with the American public in the way that World War II did, despite the fact that nearly 2 million Americans served as part of a United Nations forcing the three-year fight against the North Koreans and Chinese, and some 37,000 died. Maybe it was because The Korean War wasn’t a “declared war” and ended in a different way .The Korean War has been called a “forgotten war”by so many people since at least October 1951 when U.S. News &

When the war first broke out, people worried that American involvement would be involved in the same type of situation that had characterized the Second World War. after a few months most Americans turned back to their own lives, ignoring the conflict raging half a world away. Newspapers continued to report on the war, but with the entrance of the Chinese in fall 1950 kept the Americans from winning the war in 1951, few Americans wanted to read or think about Korea. About one-fourth of Korean War veterans also served in World War II and many went on to serve in the Vietnam War. Maybe the most distinctive characteristic of the Korean War generation is their silence. Veterans of both World War II and the Vietnam War came back to talk about what they did and to form veterans organizations, but Korean War veterans came home and tried to pick up their old lives and forget all of the experiences that happened to them during the war. . Many of them didn’t even tell their wives or children that they served in that

Much like the soldiers in Afghanistan, the 1.8 million Americans who fought in Korea in and out of the war zone without attracting much attention. People barely noticed the new generation of combat veterans trickling home. Recognition might have followed the armistice, but in 1953 the veterans themselves,say that the the Korean War as anything but a victory. The long shadow cast by the “greatest generation” shaded Korean vets from public view until veterans of the Vietnam War took center stage, rendering the veterans of Korea even more invisible. Americans were basically beating North Korea in the war , to the point that once they pushed them up to the Chinese border, China got nervous and sent in a lot of ground troops China thought americans were invading them,a war with china wouldn't be too bad for americans they would be outnumbered by a lot, even McArthur knew better. Besides, China had the help of russia on their side, and at that time we were in the beginning of the Cold war. Leaving China alone in turn left Russia alone, probably preventing WW3, which would have been a worldwide Communist vs Capitalist slaughter that would have wiped out half the earth's population. well during WWII it was OK for U.S. to use a nuke because we were already deep in the situation and it saved more lives that it killed. by the end of the Korean war americans were not the only ones with Nuclear power, Russia and East Germany both