Korea: The war without end

Communist troops of the North Korean People’s Army attack the South on June 25, 1950.
They are in Seoul in less than a week. A United Nations coalition resolves to stop them.

Canada joins what is by any definition a war. For three years, Canadians fight iconic battles on land, sea and in the air; 516 die and when the killing is over, the more than 26,000 survivors spend years fighting for recognition.

They call it a “police action” and the “Forgotten War,” but for those Canadians who fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, neither time nor circumstance can erase the memories of what they saw, smelled and experienced in the hills and valleys around the 38th parallel and beyond.