Veteran from Valley remembers 'forgotten war'

VIENNA

The Korean War — sandwiched between World War II, the United States’ biggest war; and the Vietnam War, the nation’s longest war — is often called “The Forgotten War.”

“There were parades for the men who came home from World War II. I felt sorry for the guys coming home from Vietnam because of the way they were greeted,” said Arthur “Art” S. Cornfield of Vienna.

“But when I came home from Korea, it didn’t seem like people even knew I’d been gone,” said the Army veteran who served in Korea from February 1952 until April 1953.

It may have been “forgotten” or relatively unknown by a public tired of war, but Cornfield, one of the men who fought in what also is referred to as “a nasty little war,” remembers it as a cold, barren deadly place without trees.

Read the full story in Monday's Vindicator.