GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: This is Gene Randall in Washington. We are taking you now live to the Korean War Memorial here in this city, where President Clinton is about to speak on this the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ... for your remarks and your outstanding service. General Myers (ph), Mr. Ambassador, thank you so much for being here today; Chaplain Craven (ph), Chaplain Soble (ph), especially my friend Senator Glenn, whose life is a testament to the triumph of freedom. I would also like to thank Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Gober for being here, and acknowledge that Secretary West and Congressman Charles Rangel, a Korean War veteran, are in Seoul today leading the American delegation at the commemoration activities there, and we ought to give them a big hand, they are representing us well.</s>RANDALL: The Korean War began 50 years ago today when North Korean troops invaded the South, storming across the 38th Parallel. By the time the armistice was signed in 1953, at least 37,000 Americans had died. Another 92,000 had been wounded. Eight thousand Americans remain unaccounted for to this day.
President Clinton Addresses Crowd at Korean War Commemoration