Luther Story, Medal of Honor recipient and American Hero.
It is sometimes called America's "Forgotten War." Others refer to it as a police action, as though the US military sent NYPD. It was very nearly WWIII. It was fought on a peninsula many could not find on a map, over far away and often inhospitable terrain, against a political ideology tied to a former ally, by a United States still war weary. More than a few scholars (I studied under one as an undergraduate) question why our country fought there in the first place.
Into that difficult, deadly war men like Luther Story were drawn. Rather than write a regurgitation of his astonishing life and heroic death, read instead the highlighted article from Fox News. In it, the writer points out that 18 year old Corporal Story fought to give the people of South Korea a chance to make for themselves a strong, vibrant and free country. He gave his life in that service, and in the service of giving his country an ally who has stood by us in times of great need.
His remains, recently identified among those returned from Korea while the war was underway, were returned to his family, and to a grateful nation. On this Memorial Day, we remember the men and women of our nation who have given their lives so that others - many others - may be free.
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