Honor America,

Honor Its Flag

To the Editor:

The Korean War Veterans Association is anxious to inform and provide information about how best to display the American flag and how to properly dispose of it once it becomes old and tattered.

The flag should be flown proudly — and never in disgrace.

For in honoring our flag, we likewise do honor to the generations of American men and women who served our nation with distinction … and know the meaning of “Freedom Is Not Free!

Within the next few months Americans will have ample opportunities to reflect on this. With Armed Forces Day in May, followed by one of our most patriotic of holidays, Memorial Day! June 14 is Flag Day (a day set aside to particularly display and honor our colors). June 25 is the anniversary of the start of the “Korean War.” A conflict which yet is not ended. Only suspended by a fragile truce!

On that date we ask all who will, to please take a few moments to remember the staunch soldiers, marines, navy and air force personnel who, outnumbered by the numerically superior forces of Communist China and North Korea, stopped brutal Communist aggression in the Far East and thus preserved the freedom and integrity of the peoples of Japan and South Korea.

Sadly, “time” has eroded those events, sometimes eclipsed by later momentous struggles in preservation of “freedom.” For too long history books have considered the Korean War (some have termed it was only a “police action”) of 1950–1953 a “forgotten war.” But for that generation of Americans who fought there with pride and distinction it will ever be remembered as “America’s Forgotten Victory!”

The Korean War Veterans Association is a national organization, represented locally by the Danbury Chapter under President Bernard Rotunda, and meets monthly in Bethel.

For further data about the organization, its activities and its speaker’s bureau; or for membership information, please call in the Newtown area: Bernie Rotunda at 744-1974 or Art Sheehan at 268-2172.

Art Sheehan

Korean War Veterans Assoc.

PO Box 2632, Danbury                                                         May 9, 2007