I think it's cool that you Aussies devote an entire day to Korean War vets. Here in the States, we have Memorial Day, which covers the dead from every American War and Veterans' Day, which is similarly generalized. Korea has been called the "Forgotten War" by some American scholars because:
A. It wasn't an outright win for the U.S./ROK/U.N. and...
B. It was squeezed in between the much larger/longer WWII and Vietnam Wars.
It's too bad because a lot of Americans fought, were wounded, or died there. It was the seminal armed proxy conflict of the Cold War. My dad earned his purple heart there. The U.S. still has thousands of service men and women stationed there and, the two Koreas are still technically at war. Considering that the NKs have at least a couple of nukes, and several types of ballistic missiles, I think that Americans should know a lot more about the last 100 years or so of Korean history.
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