Memories
On a map of Korea at the Eldorado Hotel, Korean war veterans Tom McHugh, left, and Edward Dauster find points of combat Dauster knew. The Korean War Veterans Association, which McHugh heads, is meeting in Reno this week. Sometimes called “the forgotten war,” the Korean war was enormously unpopular in the United States, according to opinion surveys of the time. Polls during Korea often showed a higher level of opposition—about two thirds of the U.S. public—than during Vietnam. Military historian Loren Baritz has written that the difference between the two wars “was not the number of Americans who disagreed with government policy, but the number who took to the streets.”
Photo By David Robert
