Korean War Quotes - Page 2

• As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

  Thomas Frank

  War, President, May

  "George W. Is No Martyr" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2009.

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• It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Jobs, War, Simple

  Campaign speech, Detroit, Mich., 24 Oct. 1952

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• My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.

  Ryan McGinley

  Dad, War, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Beautiful, Sex, War

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• I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Brother, Father, War

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.

  Robert Hormats

  Military, War, Sacrifice

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• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  Oliver North

  Country, Veterans Day, Teacher

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• Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Order, Troops

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• From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

  George Lopez

  Funny, War, Home

  "George Lopez". TV Series, m.imdb.com. 2002-2007.

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• I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.

  Buzz Aldrin

  War, Airplane, Wings

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• I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  War, Writing, Novelists

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. March 5, 2010.

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• In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

  Noah Feldman

  War, Korea, President

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• The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  War, Philippines, Vietnam

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• I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

  Robert Englund

  War, Thinking, Vampire

  Source: www.ramascreen.com

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