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Article: Proclamation 6812 - National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. (Pres. Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
- Article from:
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- July 31, 1995
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July 26, 1995
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On July 27, 1953, the guns finally fell silent over the Korean peninsula. Three years of fierce struggle, costing over 600,000 lives among U.S. and allied combatants, ended with a negotiated cease-fire at Panmunjom. At that moment, in the midst of the Cold War, facing the burden of containing a hostile communist world, America could not yet see clearly all that the Korean War had achieved.
Time and history have cleared our vision. More than four decades later, we look back in awe and gratitude at what our Armed Forces and allies accomplished in Korea. Under the banner ...