Remembering the Forgotten War
By Colonel Joseph Alexander, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
In a March 1999 conference sponsored by the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation and the U.S. Naval Institute, an assembly of distinguished historians, military veterans, and government officials tackled the questions of whether the Korean War was "The Wrong War? With the Wrong Enemy? At the Wrong Place? At the Wrong Time?"
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Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.) served in the Corps for 29 years as an assault amphibian officer. He has written six books, including Utmost Savagery and Edson’s Raiders. He was the Naval Institute Author of the Year in 1996 and Naval History Author of the Year in 2010. He was the principal historian and writer on the exhibit design team throughout the construction of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He resides in Asheville, North Carolina.
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