Long known as THE FORGOTTEN WAR –
The Korean conflict war memorial
is to me – “WALKING AMONG THE GHOSTS ” of war.

My brother in law Bill was in this war –
and not once did he ever talk to me about it !
The closest we came was him giving me his sleeping bag –
as a teenager who used it to sleep out on –
North Western chilly nights
in a little town of Eldred Pa.

walking from the Wall
to the Korean War Memorial

Seeing the GHOSTS for the first time
The sight is becoming – the soldiers – silently walking –
through the shrubs – gray – white –
the effect is startling.

One can almost feel the tension in the air –
the expected clash about to happen –
I often wonder what it would be like to be there –
not in Korea – but here –
on a dark silent night –
with mist swirling in from the Potomac !

on the Korean War Memorial
That is the sense this brings to me –
in a War mostly forgotten
yet the vast numbers of loss and maimed
remain with us to this day.

reading the message on the memorial


The message is here
long ago
but forever written
not to be FORGOTTEN
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The Forgotten War – being visited by us –
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Reflections of the present
among the GHOSTS of the past
The Korean Memorial
The Forgotten War
May we always remember !
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