○  奥巴马纪念朝鲜战争停战60周年演讲  ○

　　In the days that followed, both sides pulled back, leaving a demilitarized zone between them. Soldiers emptied their sandbags and tore down their bunkers. Our POWs emerged from the camps. Our troops boarded ships and steamed back across the ocean. And describing the moment he passed under the Golden Gate Bridge, one of those soldiers wrote, “We suddenly knew we had survived the war, and we were home.”

　　在随后的日子里，双方均撤回军队，在中间留出了一个非军事区。军人清空了沙袋，拆除了掩体。我们的战俘走出了战俘营。我们的部队登上舰艇，乘船回到大洋彼岸。一位回家的士兵在描述通过金门大桥下的那一刻时说道：“我们突然明白我们从战争中活过来，我们到家了。”

　　Yet ask these veterans here today and many will tell you, compared to other wars, theirs was a different kind of homecoming. Unlike the Second World War, Korea did not galvanize our country. These veterans did not return to parades. Unlike Vietnam, Korea did not tear at our country. These veterans did not return to protests. Among many Americans, tired of war, there was, it seemed, a desire to forget, to move on. As one of these veterans recalls, “We just came home and took off our uniforms and went to work. That was about it.”

　　然而，问问今天在场的这些老兵，他们许多人会告诉你，比起其他战争，他们的返乡别有一番滋味。与第二次世界大战不同，朝鲜之战没有让举国群情振奋。这些老兵返乡时没有庆祝游行。与越南战争不同，朝鲜之战没有撕裂国家。这些老兵返乡时没有抗议活动。许多厌倦了战争的美国人似乎希望忘记过去，让生活重新继续。就像其中一位老兵回忆道：“我们只不过是回到家，脱下军装，去工作。仅此而已。”

　　You, our veterans of Korea, deserved better. And down the decades, our nation has worked to right that wrong, including here, with this eternal memorial, where the measure of your sacrifice is enshrined for all time. Because here in America, no war should ever be forgotten, and no veteran should ever be overlooked. And after the armistice, a reporter wrote, “When men talk in some distant time with faint remembrance of the Korean War, the shining deeds will live.” The shining deeds will live.

　　各位朝鲜战争退伍军人，你们本应该受到更好的对待。在而后的几十年里，国家为纠正这一错误付出努力，包括在这里建立永久纪念碑，让你们付出的牺牲和功绩永垂青史。因为在美国，没有任何一场战争应被遗忘，没有任何一位退伍军人应被忽略。停战以后，一位记者写道：“当

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