The President's Radio Address
04/24/1998
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Today, we are learning the language in which God created life.
Today your fellow Americans say: We remember, and we are very grateful.
Had Americans and our allies not shown commitment and fortitude, we could well later have faced world war III.
Korea was not a police action or a crisis or a conflict or a clash; it was a war, a hard, brutal war.