Such an Honor
Missouri Director of Revenue Wayne Wallingford, a 25-year Air Force veteran who served in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, […]
Missouri Korean War Casualty Returned Home 74 Years Later
The remains of U.S. Army Cpl. Charles Ray Patten, 24, of Lebanon, Missouri, killed in July 1950 during the Korean
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Eight Decades – Giving Back to Neighborhood and Country
Paul Rojas – a member of the Missouri Korean War Veterans Memorial Board – left high school early at the
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A Debt of Honor
Persian Gulf War Veteran Eric Sullivan of Lee’s Summit, Mo., joined the Board of Directors of the Missouri Korean War
Standing Sentry for Kansas City’s Veterans Memorials
In 2021, Chris Cotten returned to Kansas City, Mo. with 16 years of experience to become Director of Parks, entrusted
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Armistice Day
The Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, when the North Koreans invaded South Korea, officially ended on July
Korean War Accounting
Since 1982, the remains of over 450 Americans killed in the Korean War have been identified and returned to their
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Korean War POW Camps
Throughout the war in Korea, U.S. and United Nations (UN) troops were taken as Prisoners of War (POW) by the
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Operation Glory
Over the course of the Korean War, American casualties were buried in a variety of settings, including centralized United Nations
Disinterring Korean War Unknowns
In 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began disinterring 652 sets of unknown remains associated with the Korean War that
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The DMZ Campaigns
In June 1951, the Korean War shifted. The frantic war of movement that led the United Nations Command and North
Pusan Perimeter
After nearly a half decade of instability and violence on the peninsula, North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25,