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Article: Korean War veterans mark 50th anniversary of armistice signing.
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- July 25, 2003
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Byline: Tom Infield
PHILADELPHIA _ No one ever called them the greatest generation.
For a half-century, veterans of the Korean War have lived with the stigma that they were the first American fighting men not to come home winners.
"Like everybody else, I guess, I just tried to forget it," recalls Bill Hosler, 72, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., who was wounded in a mortar attack.
The three-year-long Korean War, which dragged to a close on July 27, 1953, has long been viewed as a stalemate at best, an American defeat at worst.
It was a grinding, ugly kind of war, in which U.S. forces did some of their most courageous fighting in ...