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Presidential Pilot Remembers Flights Both Fancy and Fraught With Danger

He sits on a couch thumbing through a photo album. "Here's Dwight Eisenhower," he says. "And LBJ, Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev and Walter Cronkite." Famed Army One helicopter pilot, Retired Master Army Aviator Lt. Col. Gene Boyer, is glancing over the images that defined his life. He stops and recalls, wistfully, what it...

North Korea Threatens 'Sacred War of Justice'

South Korean soldiers marched and practiced blasting their most powerful weapons within view of the North Korean land border today, and Pyongyang retaliated only with words, but strong ones, threatening a "sacred war of justice" involving nuclear weapons. South Korea's president made a rare trip to a front-line base...

A New Korean War Would Be Devastating, but It Could Happen

(Dec. 15) -- There would be no winner if war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula. But more than 57 years after the armistice suspended open hostilities between the U.S.-allied Republic of Korea in the south and the Chinese-backed Democratic People's Republic in the north, their border remains trip-wire tense. And both...

SKorea Announces New Drills on Island Attacked by North

SEOUL, South Korea (Nov. 29) -- Troops geared up Monday for new artillery drills on a front-line island targeted by a deadly North Korean bombardment last week as the South Korean president vowed tougher retaliation for any future agression from North Korea. Similar live-fire maneuvers by South Korean troops one week...

Troops Buck Historical Trend by Saying Gays OK

WASHINGTON (Nov. 27) -- When a majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it was in sharp contrast to the time when America's fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting racial minorities and women in the services. The survey, due out...

Korean War News From the Web

05/28/12 Hundreds turn out for funeral for Korean War POW Source: The Evening News - Monroe MI CALUMET, Mich. More than 500 people in Michigan's Upper Peninsula have witnessed the burial of the remains of a soldier who died in a prisoner camp in 1951 during the Korean War. The Daily Mining Gazette says Amy Pfc. Arthur Leiviska (LEV-uh-ska) was buried Monday, Memorial Day, at Lakeview Cemetery in Calumet, his hometown in far northwestern Michigan.
05/28/12 Korea, U.S. to Excavate Bodies in DMZ Source: Chosun Ilbo Korea and the United States will begin excavating the remains of soldiers who died during the Korean War from the demilitarized zone.
05/25/12 Remains of S. Korean Korean War ca... Source: The Korea Herald The remains of 12 South Korean soldiers found north of the military demarcation line arrived in Seoul on Friday.
05/24/12 Korean War veteran meets new friend Source: ABC/CW - WAOW News Line 9 - Wassau WI After a day of touring the memorials in Washington, D.C., local veterans of World War II and Korea have a special surprise waiting for them on their return flight to Wisconsin.
05/23/12 Mystery benefactor helps complete Korea memorial Source: Burton Mail - Burton upon Trent - Staffordshire - UK A MEMORIAL to more than 1,000 British soldiers killed in the Korean War is to be unveiled in Burton after a benefactor stepped in to bridge a funding gap.

Background on Korean War

The Korean War (; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between the Republic of Korea (supported primarily by the United States of America, with contributions from allied nations under the aegis of the United Nations) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).

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