National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day

The armistice was signed July 27, 1953. No peace treaty has followed in more than 70 years.

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day on July 27 marks the anniversary of the armistice agreement signed in 1953 that ended active fighting in the Korean War, a conflict in which approximately 36,000 Americans were killed in three years of intense combat. The war is often called 'the forgotten