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🕊️ Battle of Kapyong — Remembrance

Seventy-five years ago during the Korean War, soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, alongside Canadian, New Zealand, United States, and other Commonwealth forces, held their position at the Kapyong Valley against overwhelming odds.

The battalion endured heavy casualties—32 Australians were killed, more than 50 wounded, and three taken prisoner. In recognition of their extraordinary courage and discipline under fire, 3RAR was awarded the United States Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.

Each year on April 24, we remember those who served at Kapyong, all who fought in the Korean War, and those who never returned.

Lest we forget.

📷 Yakima Valley, Washington — August 1939

A migratory child in a squatter camp before the hop harvest season begins in the Yakima Valley, photographed by Dorothea Lange.

Taken during the era of the Great Depression, the image reflects the harsh realities faced by migrant farm workers and their families, who often lived in temporary camps while following seasonal agricultural work.

Lange’s work for the Farm Security Administration documented these conditions in order to bring national attention to poverty, displacement, and labor inequality in rural America.