Memories of ‘Forgotten War’ still vivid for some - KansasCity.com
Sixty years have passed since the day North Korean troops swarmed into South Korea.
Sixty years since mothers grabbed their children and fled on foot.
Sixty years since young men from the United States learned about a country so far away.
The war changed them all, and brought other changes, too:
•It sped the integration of the U.S. military ordered in 1948 by President Harry Truman.
After the war, “many Korean veterans came home with respect for the men they fought with,” U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri said this week in Independence. “This new attitude and the demand for respect for all that served sent rippling currents throughout our country that culminated in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.”