12/23/2014: Remembering the Korean War

UN forces crossing the 38th Parallel in 1950.

Listen to Origins author Mitchell Lerner talk about the Korean War on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher.

"By its end, some thirty-six thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three year war in Korea. Six thousand of them were lost in the first winter alone when Chinese troops outmaneuvered and out-manned the U.S. forces — despite the boasts of General MacArthur that they would be home by Christmas." [Podcast description from WOSU's website

Mitchell Lerner's work with Origins: