"It was right at the end of the war, and there was a lot of fighting back and forth as to where the 38th Parallel was going to be, so a lot of shelling, a lot of action at the very end of it when I left. I was kind of glad to come home."
Paul Bradley, Air Force
Paul Bradley in Korea. (lcweb.loc.gov)
"Just satisfaction, I think is a fair way to say it. A certain amount of disappointment that I didn't accomplish all I wanted to. But I -- but, of course, everybody was relieved that it was over, because it meant -- it meant so much of an improvement for everybody and everything. But I tell you, it was very unsatisfactory terms that they signed under."
Robert Evers, Air Force
"Eisenhower had come and they signed the truce and everything was pretty well calmed down. They were still concerned about the infiltrators coming in, but shortly after that, then I processed back home, but the war was over for the most part. They had set up the 38th parallel where it was demilitarized or there wasn't supposed to be any shooting and what have you, where the South and North met, and the Americans met with them, too, and that area is still there today. They still have the 38th parallel set up."
George Zimmer, Army
George Zimmer now. (lcweb.loc.gov)
"In the final six weeks that preceded the truce signing, my battalion suffered more casualties than in its entire total of the previous 28 months. Our last loss was a medical corpsman struck down by shell fire just three hours before the armistice."