Learn Korean Conflict’s Lasting Impacts at the Ocean County Library Brick Branch

BRICK TOWNSHIP – This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean Conflict, which cost tens of thousands of American military members their lives and altered the course of East-West global relations. Join us for “The Korean Conflict: America’s Forgotten War” at the Ocean County Library Brick Branch, 11 AM Wednesday, June 25.

Historian and author Paul Zigo, Director of the World War II Era Studies Institute, will conduct the presentation on the anniversary of the date that hostilities reached boiling point.

On June 25, 1950, more than 90,000 North Korean troops trained by the Soviet Union poured over the 38th Parallel. Three brutal years of battle led to the deaths of more than 54,000 Americans who tried to stop Communism from engulfing the peninsula. Learn about the many aspects of this war and the Armistice that ended it, a pact that is still in place today.

Colonel Paul Zigo (USA, Ret.) followed 30 years of military service by creating more than 20 presentations of global warfare and politics from World War I to the Vietnam conflict. He is the author of several books including When Men Have to Die: Harry J. Whittinghill’s Memoir of the Bataan Death March and Unconditional Surrender: Witnessing History – May 1945, available at the Ocean County Library.

Paul also produced and narrated the 2001-2004 cable network series Triumphant Spirit: America’s World War II Generation Speaks. He is a founding sponsor of the National Museum of the U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/OclBZigo to attend this free program. For more information, visit or call the OCL Brick Branch, 301 Chambers Bridge Road, (732) 477-4513. See the full schedule of Library programs in the online Calendar of Events.

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