With UN troops getting dangerously close to the Yalu River, Mao Zedong's orders were simple: destroy the 1st Marine Division.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill changing the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.