Anyone know what happened with the 200 Korean War dead comment the Pig made...

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3. Yes. The war ended in 1953. So the youngest soldiers would have been born by 1935.

That means that, with perhaps a handful of exceptions, the youngest parents of soldiers would have be born by the end of WWI

... "One of the things that really I'm happy is that the soldiers that died in Korea, their remains are going to be coming back home," Trump said during a Fox News interview. "And we have thousands of people that have asked for that — thousands and thousands of people."

"So many people asked when I was on the campaign," Trump added. "I’d say, 'wait a minute, I don’t have any relationship' — but they said, 'when you can, president, we'd love our son to be brought back home' — you know, the remains" ...

The president is correct that there are families still calling for the remains of their relatives who fought and died in the Korean War to be returned to the US. But his claim the parents of soldiers who fought in the war spoke to him in 2016 is suspicious, given that they would've been roughly 100 years old at the time based on when the war occurred. In other words, the vast majority of parents of Korean War veterans are likely dead ...

Trump claims parents of Korean War soldiers asked for his help, but most of them are likely dead
John Haltiwanger
Published 1:22 pm, Thursday, June 14, 2018
https://www.mysanantonio.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Trump-claims-parents-of-Korean-War-soldiers-asked-12995190.php