On this day in 1950,

TRUMAN ORDERS U.S. FORCES TO KOREA

37,000 American Boys Killed, Over 100,000 Wounded

On this day in 1950, Democrat President Harry S. Truman ordered U.S. armed forces to South Korea to defend against an invasion by North Korea.  Truman also ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb military targets in North Korea and directed the U.S. Navy to blockade the North Korean coast.  China responded by entering the war on the side of North Korea a few months later.  The war lasted three years before ending in a stalemate that exists to this day.  37,000 American boys were killed and over 100,000 were wounded. 7,800 Americans remain unaccounted for 67 years later.  Some estimate the cost of the war for all sides as high as $20 billion and claim that up to 5,000,000 civilians and soldiers were killed.