The morning that 90,000 troops of the People’s Army of North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel to invade South Korea — June 25, 1950 — Don Hibbs was driving the first of his nighttime cab customers across town in Galt, Ont. If he’d turned on his car radio, Hibbs might also have heard that the five-year-old United Nations Security Council was then considering a resolution to “furnish assistance to [South Korea] to repel the armed attack and restore international peace and security in the area.” The resolution amounted to a declaration of war between the Koreas. And it changed Don Hibbs’ life.
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