The Korean War Continues

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Sixty years ago today, America signed the cease-fire armistice on the Korean peninsula. But for North Korea, the war has never truly ended.

Gordon G. Chang

7/27/13

 

At 7:27 on Saturday evening, Americans remembering the Forgotten War will be lighting 727 candles for peace at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Sixty years ago, on the 27th day of the seventh month of 1953, American General William Harrison signed the armistice ending the fighting on the Korean peninsula.

 

Americans may think the Korean War is over, but for North Korea it has never truly ended. In fact, there has been no peace agreement formally bringing the conflict to a close, and the prospects for one are bleak.

 

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Americans in Washington may mark the 60th anniversary with prayers for peace and ignore the Norths tearing up of the armistice, but in Pyongyang, North Koreans are still glorifying war. An unstable ruling group holding the worlds most destructive weapons is bound to use violence again.

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Korean War Veterans Association

 

Every year at Osan Air Base in South Korea, a ceremony is held at the actual site of Hill 180 where on February 7, 1951, the men of Easy Company, 27th Infantry Regiment (Wolfhounds), commanded by then Captain Lewis L. Millett, a Maine native, led a bayonet charge against a well-entrenched and superior force of Chinese and won the day.

 

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Millett ordered two platoons to fix their bayonets and then led the troops up the hill. He received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions, but it was only a prelude to a bigger fight ahead. Two days later, when Company E came upon Hill 180, a 600-foot knoll in Osan, they came under heavy fire.

 

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In the intense hand-to-hand combat, Millett personally killed at least three Chinese soldiers, but was seriously wounded by an enemy grenade blast. By early afternoon, his Easy Company had taken the hill. Forty-seven dead Chinese lay on the forward slope, 30 of them killed with bayonets. On the reverse slope were another 50 Chinese bodies. Easy Company lost nine men.

 

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