"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE" is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Korean War started JUNE 25, 1950.
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands.
Outnumbered
South Korean and American troops, as part of a UN "police" action,
fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean
troops, who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the Soviet
Union.
General
Douglas MacArthur, who led the United Nations Command from 1950 to
1951, made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind North
Korean lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.
General Douglas MacArthur warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, December 12, 1951, stating:
"History
fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral
decay have not passed into political and economic decline.
There
has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a
progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
With
temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero, and Washington
politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there
were nearly 140,000 American casualties in:
the defense of the Pusan Perimeter and Taego;
the landing at Inchon and the freeing of Seoul;
the capture of Pyongyang;
the Yalu River where nearly a million Communist Chinese soldiers invaded;
the
Battles of Changjin Reservoir, Old Baldy, White Horse Mountain,
Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill, T-Bone Hill, and Siberia Hill.
President Harry S Truman stated while lighting the National Christmas Tree, December 24, 1952:
"Tonight,
our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They
are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the
chance of peace in the world...
And as we go about our business
of trying to achieve peace in the world, let us remember always to try
to act and live in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His
heart no hate and no malice - nothing but love for all mankind.
We should try as nearly as we can to follow His example. We believe that all men are truly the children of God...
As
we pray for our loved ones far from home - as we pray for our men and
women in Korea, and all our service men and women wherever they are -
let us also pray for our enemies.
Let us pray that the spirit of
God shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands...Through Jesus
Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place."
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President
Dwight Eisenhower's son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, served in Korea
during the war. First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower stated in a
conversation at the Doud home regarding him:
"He has a mission to fulfill and God will see to it that nothing will happen to him till he fulfills it."
Fighting in Korea was halted July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice at Panmunjom.
At the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated:
"It is necessary that we earnestly seek out and uproot any traces of communism."
Dwight Eisenhower stated December 24, 1953, lighting the National Christmas Tree:
"The world still stands divided in two antagonistic parts. Prayer places freedom and communism in opposition one to the other.
The
Communist can find no reserve of strength in prayer because his
doctrine of materialism and statism denies the dignity of man and
consequently the existence of God.
But in America...religious
faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an
indispensable part of that faith...The founders of this, our country,
came first to these shores in search of freedom...to live...beyond the
yoke of tyranny."
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