TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a proclamation honoring Korean War veterans as part of Korean War Remembrance Day in Florida. The proclamation commemorates the 69th anniversary of North Korea’s invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950.
More than 294,000 Floridians wore the uniform of the Armed Forces of the United States during the three-year war. There are 157 Floridians still unaccounted for as a result of fighting on the Korean peninsula.