Updated Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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The Korean War
carries the label
"police action", but many young men lost their lives in the effort to drive the
North Koreans from the territory of their southern
neighbors. 
Korea also signals the first time, since the
American Revolution, that the military forces of the United States of America were
integrated.
The United States Military, although a slice of the greater American Society, remains one of the few areas of life a black can participate and expect something akin to equal treatment. Certainly no utopia the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard have collectively produced more individual success than any other walk of life.
The U.S. suffered 157,530 casualties; deaths from all causes totaled 33,629, of which 23,300 occurred in combat. South Korea sustained 1,312,836 military casualties, including 415,004 dead; casualties among other UN allies totaled 16,532, including 3094 dead. Estimated Communist casualties were 2 million. The economic and social damage to the Korean nation was incalculable.
