‘We take pride in what we accomplished’: Canadian veterans remember the Korean War

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Bill Black still gets letters and cards thanking him and other Canadian veterans for their service in the Korean War. Bill Black still gets letters and cards thanking him and other Canadian veterans for their service in the Korean War. Quite a few of those notes from South Koreans have arrived lately at the Korea Veterans Association, where Black is president of an Ottawa chapter, as the 70th anniversary of the armistice in that conflict approaches. More than 26,000 Canadian Armed Forces were deployed to assist South Korea after it was invaded by North Korea in 1950 and 7,000 more...