Once again the Korean War is forgotten but Michael Jackson is remembered.

The Forgotten War fought in Korea began today in 1950 but you'd be very hard pressed to find anything about this bloody war in our schools or even our bookstores today. The insult is huge and frankly we, the American people, should be ashamed that we've allowed this outrage to begin much less to continue. However, that is exactly what has happened. Our veterans of this terrible war (my dad is a combat wounded Korean War vet himself) are largely ignored by the history books and the media. In President Obama's speech given today at 8am central time in which he talked about the housing market there was not one mention of the war that began so long ago. Korean War vets take being forgotten stoically. My dad has said time and again to me, "That's just the way it is." That is not good enough for me and by God it shouldn't be good enough for you either. Lets cut the crap and talk some numbers:

• A three year long war begins
• That war claims 36,516 American lives
• 92,134 American servicemen are wounded in this conflict
• 8,176 Americans are MIA
• 7,245 Americans are taken as POWs

The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953 and I don't give a damn that the United Nations called the war a "police action." It was a shooting war that claimed the lives of the sons and daughters of the United States. It was the first time that the sons and daughters of this country were asked to give their lives in a war without a congressional declaration of war. It was the first time that Americans were asked to give their lives for a UN mandate and the bureaucrats at the UN don't even have the decency to call it a war. A police action? Give me a break. The war began when communist North Korea launched a war of aggression against the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and our brave fighting men fought and bled and died defending a poor country that simply did not have the ability to defend itself and we here in America, for the most part, don't even remember this even happened. It infuriates me. It shames me. And by God, it should shame you too. We owe our fathers and grandfathers the honor that has been denied them for far to long.

To add insult to injury is when people in the public light say straight faced that World War II was the last war America (I guess that forgot about Granada, Panama, and the First Gulf War) won or dare to say that we lost the Korean War. How dare they. LOOK AT A MAP! IS SOUTH KOREA STILL THERE? YES IT IS! WE DID NOT LOOSE. South Korea is very much independent and went from being one of the poorest nations on Earth to one of the richest. Everyone in the public sphere who has ever uttered that slander owes a much higher debt than those of us who have forgotten this war even happened. That statement is an out and out lie, a slander, and it is repugnant. Thankfully the people of South Korea haven't forgotten the sacrifice that our dads and granddads made. In Vietnam, South Koreans bled and died alongside American soldiers. Even today in Afghanistan and Iraq the warriors of South Korea are there helping shoulder the burden and this writer for one thanks them.

The final insult on this hallowed day is the fact that while people have forgotten and/or ignored the fact that a war that claimed so many American lives (and took 138,000 South Korean lives) we remember that Michael Jackson, that great American artist died a year ago today. Last time I checked the major networks are planning a three day tribute to...no, not America's finest who were asked to give everything for a foreign country, but to...Michael Jackson. How the mighty have fallen. How the hell are we going to take our country back? People talk big about liberty and freedom and fighting the new world order and all this other big talk but let me tell you something. Until we take back our homes and teach our posterity just what a true hero is (and Michael Jackson IS NOT a hero) we are just kidding ourselves. The next time you see a Korean War vet, and there aren't many left, walk up to him, look him in the eye. Shake his hand and say, "Thank you sir. Others may have forgotten what you and yours did, but for me and my house, we remember."