In 1950, when I was 10, my parents, and younger brother and sister came as immigrants to Maryland in USA from WW-II UN refuge camp in Germany. We were refuges because my father was anti-communist and would not return to the Ukraine part of the Soviet Union. He rightfully recognized that he would not survive long if he did return.

The Korean war was against communism and even China and Russia. So, we paid close attention to the news about the war. He read Ukrainian newspapers published in New Jersey and also one in Canada and I listened to local radio and translated stuff to the parents.