war veterans-Korea visitNonagenarian foreign veterans recount emotional Korean War memoriesBy Song Sang-ho SEOUL, July 25 (Yonhap) -- Seventy years after the end of the Korean War, three foreign veterans expressed their deep emotional attachment to South Korea on Tuesday, stemming from long-lost local acquaintances, battlefield memories and their pride in the "once-flat" country's rise from the ashes of the conflict. The U.S., British and Canadian veterans in their 90s -- William Word, Colin Thackery and Edward Buckner, respectively -- were visiting Seoul under a state program commemorating their service here on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that halted the war.

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