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![President Yoon Suk Yeol bows to Navy Capt. Elmer Royce Williams, center, and retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett, left, before awarding the Taegeuk Order of Military Merit, the highest military order, during a luncheon celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Korea-U.S. alliance at a hotel in Washington on Tuesday. The late Baldomero Lopez, a first lieutenant who served in the Marine Corps, was also awarded the Taegeuk Order of Military Merit posthumously. His nephew received the order on behalf of the late Lopez. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10530944.jpg?imageId=10530944&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![President Yoon Suk Yeol (R) confers the Taegeuk Order of Military Merit on retired Navy Capt. Elmer Royce Williams during a luncheon celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Korea-U.S. alliance at a hotel in Washington on Tuesday. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10569297.jpg?imageId=10569297&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![The Korean Air Force's acrobatic flight team, Black Eagles, perform an air show in the southeastern port city of Busan on Nov. 11, 2021, during the Turn Toward Busan ceremony that commemorates fallen UN troops who fought for the South during the 1950-53 Korean War. [Yonhap]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10303990.jpg?imageId=10303990&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Ambassador of Turkey to Korea, Ersin Ercin, speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily at the Embassy of Turkey in central Seoul on July 16. He is holding up a photo of Lieutenant Mehmet Gonenc and other soldier with a young Korean girl they found among the ruins of the war. [PARK SANG-MOON]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12141406.jpg?imageId=12141406&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)