Lest we forget is an injunction as old as the Old Testament. So with history and memory in mind we can look at headlines — some bittersweet, others simply sour—from across the decades and see that they are connected, still.

On September 16, 1950, this in The New York Times: “Dad’s Letter Tells Two Little Girls Why He Went to Korea — And Died.”

And this year, a header from the U.S. House Judiciary Committee: “New Report Exposes South Korea’s Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses.”

The news account from almost exactly 76 years ago recalls Private First Class John J. McCormick of Pennsylvania. “There are a lot of bad men in the world,” he wrote to his wife and young children as he deployed overseas to the Korean Peninsula. “So I have to help fight these men.” Then he added words that still bring a tear: “It might take a long while, and maybe Daddy will have to go and help God up in Heaven.”

On August 10, McCormick was killed in action.

Now, the 2026 headline speaks to a real-time concern: South Korea’s political campaign against U.S. companies. At a conference in Washington, D.C. on September 17, Matt Mowers, head of the US-Asia Fair Market Alliance, rated countries on their trade practices: “South Korea was the second........

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