great perspective...this was in the NYT, right? /sarc
The Korean War is barely discussed in history social studies classes. It's considered to have ended in a stalemate... the first war America didn't win. I think that view is incorrect.
The allies went to South Korea with the goal of helping it to gain freedom from Communist North Korea, and we succeeded in reaching that goal.
Without the help of their allies, today's South Koreans would most likely be starving and enslaved like the North Koreans are.