Good morning. Annyong haseyo. 大家早上好。安宁哈赛哟，你们好。
Secretaries Hagel, Jewell and Shinseki; Admiral Winnefeld; General Jung; all our friends from the Republic of Korea, including the legendary General Paik Sun Yup; distinguished guests; and most of all, veterans of the Korean War and your families. To our veterans -- many in your 80s, a few in your old uniforms -- which still fit -- let me just say you look outstanding. And I would ask that all United States, Republic of Korea, and other veterans who fought -- I would ask those who can stand to please stand so that we can properly honor you here today. 哈格尔、朱厄尔和新关部长，温尼菲尔德上将，郑将军，来自大韩民国的各位朋友，包括传奇的白善烨将军，各位贵宾，尤其是朝鲜战争的老兵及家人。我要对在座的老兵说：许多人已八十多岁，有些还穿着当年的军装，而且仍然合身，你们看起来精神极了。请所有曾参加战斗的美国、韩国及其他国家的老兵，如果身体允许，请起立，让我们今天向你们致以应有的敬意。
July 27th, 1953 -- 60 years ago today, in the village of Panmunjom, in a barren room, the generals picked up their pens and signed their names to the agreement spread before them. That night, as the armistice took hold, the guns of war thundered no more. Along the jagged front, men emerged from their muddy trenches. A Marine raised his bugle and played taps. And a soldier spoke for millions when he said, “Thank God it is over.” 1953年7月27日，正是六十年前，在板门店一间空荡荡的屋子里，将领们拿起笔，在面前的协定上签下名字。那天夜里，停战开始生效，战场上的炮声终于止息。沿着曲折的前线，士兵们走出泥泞的战壕。一名海军陆战队员举起军号吹奏熄灯号。一名士兵说出了数百万人的心声：“感谢上帝，终于结束了。”
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.” 随后几天，双方撤退，在中间留下非军事区。士兵们倒空沙袋，拆除掩体。我们的战俘走出营地，部队登船越过大洋归来。一位士兵描述经过金门大桥下方的时刻时写道：“我们突然知道，自己从战争中活下来了，回家了。”
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，问问今天在场的老兵，许多人会告诉你们，与其他战争相比，他们的归乡截然不同。朝鲜战争不像第二次世界大战那样激励举国同心，他们归来时没有游行欢迎；它也不像越南战争那样撕裂国家，他们归来时没有抗议。许多厌倦战争的美国人似乎只想忘掉它，继续生活。正如一位老兵回忆：“我们只是回家，脱下军装，去工作。差不多就是这样。”
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. 参加朝鲜战争的老兵们，你们本应得到更好的待遇。几十年来，国家一直努力弥补这一亏欠，包括建立眼前这座永久纪念碑，让你们的牺牲永远铭刻于此。因为在美国，任何一场战争都不应被遗忘，任何一位老兵都不应被忽视。停战后，一位记者写道：“在遥远的未来，人们谈起记忆渐淡的朝鲜战争时，光辉的事迹仍将流传。”那些光辉事迹会永远流传。
On this 60th anniversary, perhaps the highest tribute we can offer our veterans of Korea is to do what should have been done the day you come home. In our hurried lives, let us pause. Let us listen. Let these veterans carry us back to the days of their youth, and let us be awed by their shining deeds. 值此六十周年之际，我们对朝鲜战争老兵最崇高的致敬，也许就是补上你们归来那天本该做的事。在匆忙的生活中，让我们停下来倾听。让老兵们带我们回到他们年轻时的岁月，为他们的光辉事迹深深感动。
Listen closely and hear the story of a generation -- veterans of World War II recalled to duty. Husbands kissing their wives goodbye yet again. Young men -- some just boys, 18, 19, 20 years old -- leaving behind everyone they loved “to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met.” Let’s never forget all the daughters who left home, especially our heroic nurses who saved so many. Our women in Korea also served with honor. They also gave their lives. 仔细听，你们会听到一代人的故事：二战老兵再次奉召服役，丈夫又一次吻别妻子；年轻人，有些只是十八九岁、二十岁的孩子，离开所有挚爱之人，“去保卫一个从未了解的国家、一群从未谋面的人民”。我们也永远不能忘记离家的女儿们，特别是挽救无数生命的英勇护士。赴朝服役的女性同样光荣地尽责，也有人献出了生命。
Listen, and hear how these Americans faced down their fears and did their duty. Clutching their rifles; hearing the bugles in the distance; knowing that waves of enemy fighters would soon be upon them. In ships offshore, climbing down the ropes into the landing craft, knowing some of them would not leave that beach. On the tarmacs and flight decks, taking off in their Corsairs and Sabres, knowing that they might not return to this earth. 请听这些美国人怎样克服恐惧、履行职责：他们紧握步枪，听见远处的号角，知道大批敌军即将扑来；他们从近海舰船沿绳梯爬入登陆艇，明白有些人再也无法离开那片海滩；他们在停机坪和飞行甲板上，驾驶“海盗”式和“佩刀”式战机起飞，知道自己可能永远不能返回地面。
Listen, and hear of their gallantry -- often outnumbered and outgunned -- in some of the most brutal combat in modern history. How they held the line at the Pusan Perimeter. How they landed at Inchon and turned the tide of the war. How, surrounded and freezing, they battled their way out of Chosin Reservoir. And how they fought -- foxhole by foxhole, mountain after mountain, day and night -- at the Punchbowl and Heartbreak Ridge, Old Baldy and Pork Chop Hill. 请听他们在现代史上最残酷的一些战斗中，以寡敌众、装备处于劣势，却仍然英勇作战：他们守住釜山防线，在仁川登陆并扭转战局；他们被包围、忍受严寒，却从长津湖杀出重围；他们在“酒钵山”、伤心岭、老秃山和猪排山，逐个战壕、逐座山头，日夜奋战。
Listen, and hear how perhaps the only thing worse than the enemy was the weather. The searing heat, the choking dust of summer. The deep snow and bitter cold of winter -- so cold their weapons could jam; so cold their food would turn to ice. And surely no one endured more than our POWs in those hellish camps, where the torment was unimaginable. Our POWs from Korea are some of the strongest men our nation has ever produced, and today we honor them all -- those who never came home and those who are here today. 请听，在他们看来，也许比敌人更可怕的只有天气：夏天灼人的热浪和令人窒息的尘土；冬天的深雪和酷寒，冷到武器会卡住，食物会冻成冰。最难以想象的苦难，无疑由关押在地狱般营地里的战俘承受。朝鲜战争的战俘是我国最坚强的人之一。今天，我们向所有战俘致敬，无论是再也没能归来的，还是此刻在场的。
Listen to these veterans and you’ll also hear of the resilience of the human spirit. There was compassion -- starving prisoners who shared their food. There was love -- men who charged machine guns, and reached for grenades, so their brothers might live. There was the dark humor of war -- as when someone misunderstood the code name for mortar rounds -- “Tootsie Rolls” -- and then shipped our troops thousands of Tootsie Rolls -- candies. 聆听老兵讲述，你们也会听到人类精神的韧性。有同情：挨饿的俘虏彼此分享食物。有爱：士兵冲向机枪、伸手抓住手榴弹，只为让战友活下去。还有战争中的黑色幽默：有人把迫击炮弹的代号“太妃卷”误当成糖果名称，结果给部队运来了成千上万颗太妃卷糖。
And there was hope -- as told in a letter home written by a soldier in the 7th Cavalry. Marching through the snow and ice, something caught his eye -- a young lieutenant up ahead, and from the muzzle of his rifle hung a pair of tiny baby booties, “swinging silently in the wind…like tiny bells.” They were sent by the lieutenant’s wife, pregnant with their first child, and she promised to send ribbons -- blue if a boy, pink if a girl. But as the war ground on, those soldiers were scattered. Until one day, on a Korean road, he spotted the lieutenant again. 还有希望。一名第七骑兵团士兵在家书中写道，队伍穿过冰雪时，他注意到前方一位年轻中尉，步枪枪口上挂着一双婴儿小鞋，“像小铃铛一样在风中静静摇摆”。鞋子是中尉怀着第一胎的妻子寄来的，她答应再寄丝带：生男孩就寄蓝色，生女孩就寄粉色。战争持续，士兵们各奔东西。直到有一天，他在朝鲜的一条路上又看到了那位中尉。
“Swinging gaily in the first rays of the morning sun,” the soldier wrote, were those booties, “and fluttering below them was the brightest, bluest piece of ribbon I have ever seen.” 士兵写道，那双小鞋“在清晨第一缕阳光中欢快地摇摆”，鞋子下方飘动着“我见过的最鲜亮、最湛蓝的一段丝带”。
Six decades on, these moments may seem like faint remembrances of a distant time. But for you -- our Korea veterans and your families -- I know it must feel sometimes just like just yesterday. And on days such as this, you’re back there once more. For Korea was the fire that helped to forge you. 六十年过去，这些片段也许像遥远年代的模糊记忆。但对朝鲜战争老兵和家人而言，我知道有时仍仿佛发生在昨天。在今天这样的日子，你们又回到那里，因为朝鲜战火锻造了你们。
As we listen to the story of your service, I say let us also learn, because your lives hold lessons for us today. Korea taught us the perils when we fail to prepare. After the Second World War, a rapid drawdown left our troops underequipped, so that in the early days of Korea, their rockets literally bounced off enemy tanks. Today, as we end a decade of war and reorient our forces for the future, as we make hard choices at home, our allies and adversaries must know the United States of America will maintain the strongest military the world has ever known, bar none, always. That is what we do. 聆听你们服役的故事时，我想说，我们也应该从中学习，因为你们的人生给今天的我们留下教训。朝鲜战争告诉我们，准备不足何其危险。二战后迅速裁军，使部队装备匮乏；在朝鲜战争初期，火箭弹竟会从敌方坦克上弹开。今天，我们结束长达十年的战争，调整军队面向未来，并在国内作出艰难抉择时，盟友与对手都必须知道：美利坚合众国将始终保持世界上最强大的军队，无可匹敌。这就是我们会做的。
Korea taught us that, as a people, we are stronger when we stand as one. On President Truman’s orders, our troops served together in integrated units. And the heroism of African Americans in Korea -- and Latinos and Asian Americans and Native Americans -- advanced the idea: If these Americans could live and work together over there, surely we could do the same thing here at home. 朝鲜战争教会我们，人民团结一致时就更强大。根据杜鲁门总统的命令，部队中的不同族裔共同服役。非洲裔、拉丁裔、亚裔和美洲原住民在朝鲜的英勇表现推动了一种理念：如果他们能在战场上共同生活和工作，我们在国内当然也能做到。
Change came slowly. And we continue our long journey toward a more perfect union. But for the great strides we have made toward the ideals of equality and opportunity, we must give thanks to our Korean War veterans who helped point the way. 改变来得缓慢。我们仍在朝着更完善的联邦迈进。但在追求平等与机会的理想上取得的巨大进步，离不开那些帮助指明道路的朝鲜战争老兵，我们应向他们致谢。
Korea reminds us that when we send our troops into battle, they deserve the support and gratitude of the American people -- especially when they come home. Today, let us remember that -- right now -- our sons and daughters continue to risk their lives, give their lives, in Afghanistan. And as this war ends and we welcome them home, we will make it our mission to give them the respect and the care and the opportunities that they have earned. 朝鲜战争提醒我们，派部队上战场时，他们理应得到美国人民的支持与感谢，尤其是在归乡时。今天，让我们记住，此时此刻，我们的儿女仍在阿富汗冒生命危险，有人献出生命。随着战争结束、他们回家，我们要把给予他们应得的尊重、照顾和机会作为自己的使命。
And Korea reminds us that our obligations to our fallen and their families endure long after the battle ends. To this day, 7,910 Americans are still missing from the Korean War. And we will not stop working until we give these families a full accounting of their loved ones. Like Sergeant First Class William Robinson -- 26 years old -- missing for 63 years. This week, in Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, the Robinsons will welcome their uncle home and finally lay him to rest -- with full military honors. 朝鲜战争还提醒我们，即使战斗结束，我们对阵亡者及其家人的责任也会延续。直到今天，仍有7910名参战美国人下落不明。我们会继续努力，直到向这些家庭完整交代亲人的下落。比如26岁时失踪、至今已有63年的一级军士长威廉·罗宾逊。本周在宾夕法尼亚州印第安敦峡，他的家人将迎接叔叔回家，终于能够以完整军礼让他安息。
Freedom is not free. And in Korea, no one paid a heavier price than those who gave all -- 36,574 American patriots, and, among our allies, more than one million of our South Korean friends -- soldiers and civilians. That July day, when the fighting finally ended, not far from where it began, some suggested this sacrifice had been for naught, and they summed it up with a phrase -- “die for a tie.” 自由并非无须代价。朝鲜战场上，付出最沉重代价的是献出一切的人：36574名美国爱国者，以及盟友中超过一百万名韩国军民。那年七月，战事终于在离起点不远的地方停止。有人说这些牺牲毫无意义，用一句话概括为“为平局而死”。
It took many decades for this memorial to gain its rightful place on this great Mall where we tell our American story. It has, perhaps, taken even longer to see clearly, and understand fully, the true legacy of your service. But here, today, we can say with confidence that war was no tie. Korea was a victory. When 50 million South Koreans live in freedom -- a vibrant democracy, one of the world’s most dynamic economies, in stark contrast to the repression and poverty of the North -- that’s a victory; that’s your legacy. 这座纪念碑经过几十年，才在讲述美国故事的国家广场上获得应有的位置。也许我们花了更久，才真正看清并理解你们服役留下的遗产。但今天，我们可以满怀信心地说，这场战争不是平局，朝鲜战争取得了胜利。五千万韩国人民生活在自由之中，拥有充满活力的民主制度和世界上最有活力的经济体之一，与北方的压迫和贫困形成鲜明对照。这就是胜利，就是你们留下的遗产。
When our soldiers stand firm along the DMZ; when our South Korean friends can go about their lives, knowing that the commitment of the United States to the security of the Republic of Korea will never waver -- that is a victory, and that is your legacy. 当我们的士兵坚定驻守非军事区，当韩国朋友能够安心生活，知道美国对大韩民国安全的承诺永不动摇，这就是胜利，也是你们的遗产。
When our allies across the Asia Pacific know -- as we have proven in Korea for 60 straight years -- that the United States will remain a force for peace and security and prosperity --that’s a victory; that’s your legacy. 当亚太各地的盟友知道，正如我们六十年来在朝鲜所证明的，美国将继续维护和平、安全与繁荣，这就是胜利，也是你们的遗产。
And for generations to come, when history recalls how free nations banded together in a long Cold War, and how we won that war, let it be said that Korea was the first battle -- where freedom held its ground and free peoples refused to yield, that, too, is your victory, your legacy. 未来世代回顾历史，讲述自由国家如何在漫长的冷战中团结起来并赢得胜利时，愿人们记得，朝鲜是第一场战斗：自由在那里坚守阵地，自由人民拒绝退让。这同样是你们的胜利、你们的遗产。
Most of all, your legacy burns brightest right here, in a grateful nation that reveres you; in the loving families that cherish you -- like that young soldier with those baby booties swinging from his rifle. Ever since the war, the story of that soldier has been passed among our Korean War vets. Some of you may have heard it before. And many may have wondered what became of that soldier. Today, six decades later, we now know -- because we found him. His was Richard Shank, from St. Louis, Missouri. For his valor in Korea he earned the Silver Star. Yes, Dick survived the war. He returned home. 最重要的是，你们的遗产在这里、在崇敬你们的感恩国家中，在珍爱你们的家人心中，闪耀着最明亮的光。还记得那位枪上挂着婴儿鞋的年轻士兵吗？战后，他的故事一直在朝鲜战争老兵之间流传。有些人或许听过，也有许多人想知道他后来怎样了。今天，六十年后，我们找到了他，终于知道答案。他是来自密苏里州圣路易斯的理查德·尚克，因在朝鲜的英勇表现获得银星勋章。是的，迪克活过战争，回到了家。
He held his baby boy in his arms. He was able to be a father to his son. 他把刚出生的儿子抱在怀里，得以陪伴儿子成长。
But this story doesn’t end there -- because like so many of you, Dick continued to serve in uniform. His son grew into a man, got married, had children of his own. Those children are now adults themselves, scattered across the country. And like so many American families, they still speak with pride of their grandfather’s service in Korea. 故事还没有结束。像在座许多人一样，迪克继续身穿军装服役。儿子长大成人、结婚，生下自己的孩子。那些孩子如今也已成人，散居全国各地。和许多美国家庭一样，他们依然自豪地谈起祖父在朝鲜服役的经历。
Today, Dick Shank lives in Gainesville, Florida, and I believe he’s watching us this morning. He’s 84 years old, recovering from a recent fall while roller skating. “Life is short,” he says, “and I just keep on living it.” And one of the ways he keeps living it is by meeting up every year with his buddies from Korea, and recalling the time they shared together in that fight which ended 60 years ago today. 如今，迪克·尚克住在佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔，我相信今天早上他正看着我们。他已经84岁，前不久滑旱冰摔了一跤，目前正在康复。他说：“人生苦短，我就是要继续好好过。”他继续享受生活的一种方式，是每年与朝鲜战场上的伙伴相聚，回忆他们共同经历的那场恰在六十年前的今天结束的战斗。
Veterans of the Korean War -- in the spring of your youth you learned how short and precious life can be. And because of you, millions of people can keep on living it, in freedom and in peace. Your lives are an inspiration. Your service will never be forgotten. You have the thanks of a grateful nation. And your shining deeds will live -- now and forever. 朝鲜战争的老兵们，你们在青春岁月里懂得了生命何其短暂、何其珍贵。因为你们，数百万人能够在自由与和平中继续生活。你们的人生鼓舞着我们，你们的服役永远不会被忘记。心怀感激的国家感谢你们，你们的光辉事迹将永远流传。
May God bless those who gave all in Korea. May God bless you and your families. May God bless the alliances that helped secure our prosperity and our security. And may God continue to bless these United States of America. 愿上帝保佑在朝鲜献出一切的人，保佑你们和家人，保佑帮助维护我们繁荣与安全的联盟，并继续保佑美利坚合众国。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢。
