Cease Fire Guns Halt In Korea. Fort Worth Star Telegram, July 27, 1953.
Korean War Project Newsletter July 27 2020
Table of Contents:
1. Editorial July 27 2020
2. Korean War Armistice Agreement.
3. DMZ Veterans (post truce)
4. Membership | Sponsors
5. KWP Newsletter Delivery
6. Taps and Last Roll Call
7. Accessing the KWP website
8. This Mailing List Required Notice for Bulk Mail:
9. Family archives
10. Bookstore | Film
1. Editorial July 27 2020
Hello to everyone. We mark the 67th Anniversary of the end of
hostilities on the Korean Peninsula as all parties sat down at
Panmunjom to sign the formal truce documents.
Headlines around the world were banner sized announcing the
years of fighting. The example shown above is just one
example that can be found online or any news archive.
From “Our Documents.gov”” - quote
Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean
State (1953)
The Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, when the
North Koreans invaded South Korea, officially ended on July
27, 1953. At 10 a.m., in Panmunjom, scarcely acknowledging
each other, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, Jr., senior
delegate, United Nations Command Delegation; North Korean
Gen. Nam Il, senior delegate, Delegation of the Korean
People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers, signed 18
official copies of the tri-language Korean Armistice Agreement.
It was the end of the longest negotiated armistice in history: 158
meetings spread over two years and 17 days. That evening at
10 p.m. the truce went into effect. The Korean Armistice
Agreement is somewhat exceptional in that it is purely a military
document—no nation is a signatory to the agreement.
Specifically the Armistice Agreement:
1. Suspended open hostilities
2. Withdrew all military forces and equipment from a
4,000-meter-wide zone, establishing the Demilitarized Zone as
a buffer between the forces;
3. Prevented both sides from entering the air, ground, or sea
areas under control of the other;
4. Arranged release and repatriation of prisoners of war and
displaced persons; and
5. Established the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) and
other agencies to discuss any violations and to ensure
adherence to the truce terms.
The armistice, while it stopped hostilities, was not a permanent
peace treaty between nations.
President Eisenhower, who was keenly aware of the 1.8 million
American men and women who had served in Korea and the
36,576 Americans who had died there, played a key role in
bringing about a cease-fire. In announcing the agreement to the
American people in a television address shortly after the
signing, he said, in part,
“Soldiers, sailors and airmen of sixteen different countries have
stood as partners beside us throughout these long and bitter
months. In this struggle we have seen the United Nations meet
the challenge of aggression—not with pathetic words of protest,
but with deeds of decisive purpose. And so at long last the
carnage of war is to cease and the negotiation of the
conference table is to begin……We hope that] all nations may
come to see the wisdom of composing differences in this
fashion before, rather than after, there is resort to brutal and
futile battle.”
“Now as we strive to bring about that wisdom, there is, in this
moment of sober satisfaction, one thought that must discipline
our emotions and steady our resolution. It is this: We have won
an armistice on a single battleground—not peace in the world.
We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest”
2. Korean War Armistice Agreement
Link to full Armistice Agreement:
https://www.usfk.mil/Portals/105/Documents/SOFA/G_Armistice
_Agreement.pdf
3. DMZ Veterans (post truce)
We have mentioned many times since 1995 that the post truce
period is one of our main focus areas. We don’t have the units
displayed in the same manner as found on the Looking For by
service branch.
We elected to feature the message areas by decades of
service:
eg: “I served in Korea from 1954-56”.
DMZ Veterans Center - Messages and Information
See:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/dmzvets.htm
Major Vandon E. Jenerette, USA Retired, from South Carolina
gave
permission for us to publish his article: “The Forgotten DMZ”.
He did so back in 1996 when he found our growing website.
We are in the middle of updating how this article appears on
our
website, adding his photos, as we are doing with many other
sections.
For now, if you have not read this article, please read it.
See:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/dmz-war.html
Excerpt: Subject: Korea DMZ Part 1 Military Review Published
by
US Army Command and General Staff College Volume LXVIII -
May 1988 - No 5 pp 32-43
From late 1966 through 1969, the Korean peninsula provided
the background for a military confrontation that included
guerrilla warfare, sabotage and terrorism directed against the
people of South Korea and the Americans serving there. The
situation tested the willpower and reserve of the Unified States
and the Republic of Korea (ROK)). This article relates some of
the circumstances of a significant victory and of the combat
fought along the forgotten demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Korea.
4. Membership | Sponsors
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6. Taps and Last Roll Call
We continue to receive notices of the passing of more and
more of our KVET pen pals as well as their wives.
All these veterans or their spouses ranged in age between late
forties to mid-sixties when Hal first began serious research in
1979.
Now, the Barker Boys are 72 and 75, or approximately the ages
of most of our veteran pals when we first published notice of the
creation of our project.
It is not easy to accept the loss of our “pals”. But, none of them
will ever be forgotten.
Hand Salute!
7. Accessing the KWP website
The following is a repeat of previous announcements.
Security updates for the KWP website that began in the fall of
2017
have created problems for visitors. We have had contacts
from many visitors who use Apple operating systems and Safari
browsers.
Visitors using Safari often get a warning notice about having a
certificate
or password to enter the site. There are several solutions but
most
require a good working knowledge of the Apple Operating
system.
Some Windows 10 users have mentioned similar issues. These
are usually
easy to resolve by clearing browser cache to include cookies.
Then try this link:
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If you experience connection issues be sure to contact
Ted Barker at: admin@kwp.org to get immediate assistance.
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9. Family archives
Family members have always approached us with questions
about
sharing photos, letters, or documents for the KVET in
their lives. Many of these families have self-published books.
The trend in publishing has been changing the past few years
as more and more people use online presentation for these
archives
Instagram, Flickr, YouTube are three of the most popular
places to publish.
10. Bookstore | Film
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each offering allow viewers to learn more about each book.
or film.
Let us know if you are publishing or have found books/film that
we have not yet reference.
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Note: our November 2019 newsletter had a very long list of
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