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Whether it was McCarthyism at home or the struggle to keep the North from overrunning the South in Korea, 1950 found Americans in the midst of a war against communism. Young Americans were drafted and sent thousands of miles away from home to Korea, to fight what we now call “The Forgotten War.” Paul Pierpaoli (Virginia Military Institute), author of Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War, and Stanley Sandler (Virginia Military Institute), author of The Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished, discuss the major players at home and in Korea during this time in our history.
