The United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea remains the only UN cemetery in the world -- and for many, a final site of reunion between veterans, widows and loved ones lost in the Korean War
For more than 30 years, British veteran James Grundy made an annual 5,500-mile journey to South Korea, to visit the graves of bodies he had recovered as a young man thrust into war.
Many of those soldiers were later joined by loved ones who wished to be buried together, including their widows and other family members. Grundy died in August in the UK. His ashes will be flown to the UN cemetery where he will be interred, as instructed in his will."He wanted to rest in peace in the cemetery with his comrades," Park said.The Korean War -- sometimes referred to as"the Forgotten War," despite the millions of lives lost -- broke out in June 1950 after North Korean troops invaded South Korea.
An American corporal watches as a 9-year-old Korean girl places a bouquet of white roses on the grave of one of his fallen comrades at a UN memorial near Busan, South Korea, in 1951.For some veterans, the UN cemetery represents both the cost of the war, and the deep ties they forged with other soldiers and with South Korea itself.
Johan Theodoor Aldewereld, who served as a private first class and fought hand-to-hand against North Korean soldiers, returned to South Korea in 2016 -- his first time back since he was discharged during the war. According to a report by South Korean news agency Yonhap, Aldewereld said he was profoundly moved by the country's economic revival.
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