A Toast To Seniors – by Art Fettig

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Here’s to the Seniors,
Survivors all.
Many answered
Their Nation’s call.

In the World War,
Korea too —
When fighting was
The thing to do.

You danced to Goodman
And T.D.
You made America
Strong and free —

You raised your kids
The best you could,
In fact you did
A world of good.

You worked, you sweat
You did your share,
And now you wonder
“Who’s to care?”

Yes, here’s to Seniors
Let’s give a cheer
You get more loving,
Year by year.

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Recommended Reading

The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides.