Political Quotes

“Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the official beginning of the Korean war. Korea has often been called the forgotten war, but for the thousands of Alaskans who are veterans of that war it is hardly forgotten. The memory is with them daily. The heroic American and Korean veterans of that war fought under the most adverse circumstances to free the people of the Republic of Korea from the yoke of Communism. These veterans learned the hard way the lesson that is engraved on the Korean war Memorial here in Washington, 'Freedom is not free.' While today marks the beginning of the Korean war, this anniversary does not mark the beginning of the war between freedom and Communism in that troubled country. From the moment that the Korean peninsula was divided in 1945, that battle had begun. While Korea was one of the first examples of Imperial Japan's lust for land when it became a Japanese possession in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was a side show in World War II. The U.S. had no plan for what to do with Korea when the war was over.”