Commemoration marks 50th anniversary of Korean War
President Clinton will launch a four year observance on National Mall with a wreath at the Korean War Veterans Memorial. The effort honors 1.8 million U S personnel who served and 33 686 who died. Organizers plan local events, flags, posters, and educational material to spotlight the war and locate missing in action.
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How the Korean War came to TV land in the sixties
Roger Anderson traces Hollywood’s slow embrace of Korea as a TV and film subject. From postwar indifference to a 1969 Mash novel and Robert Altman film, the Korean War became a Vietnam era lens, with MASH translating antiwar sentiment into a beloved but misconstrued TV classic.
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