Koreans Who Served Alongside Americans Earn Place of Honor on National Mall Memorial
‘This started as a dream of the Korean War veterans,’ General Tilelli said, and the Koreans are paying the entire $22 million cost of rebuilding and greatly enlarging the memorial.
WASHINGTON – They fought as members of American military units and died with Americans in a war that lasted for more than three years. Now they’re being honored just like the Americans on a “wall of remembrance” of a vicious conflict that surged back and forth before ending in an uneasy armistice on July 27, 1953.
The role of the Korean Augmentation to the United States Army was recognized Friday in a ceremony on the National Mall at Washington in which Kim Hae-sung, chairman of the Katusa Veterans Association of Korea, presented a $50,000 donation for the Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation to General Vincent Brooks, who wound up his career as the military commander in Korea in 2018.
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