Image credits: Jimbo Albano
Editorial Cartoon
Image credits: Jimbo Albano
North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950, igniting the Korean War. The North aimed to conquer the South to unify Korea under the communist North Korean regime. Concerned that the Soviet Union and Communist China might have encouraged the invasion, President Harry S. Truman committed United States air, ground, and naval forces to the combined United Nations forces assisting the Republic of Korea in its defense.
During his first inaugural speech in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Those words were meant to sooth and inspire a nation in dire economic times and the worst depression in history.