The newly updated Wall of Remembrance at the Korean War memorial in Washington, D.C., contains hundreds of spelling errors and accidental omissions of deceased veterans, according to a new report.
The Korean War Veterans Memorial opened in July 1995 before receiving a remodel of its Wall of Remembrance last year. The $22 million project was dedicated on July 27, 2022, before a crowd of family members and friends as a way to honor those who died during the war.But upon a closer glance, some visitors began to notice glaring mistakes.
Navy helicopter pilot Lt. j.g. John Koelsch’s last name was also misspelled as Koelsh. Koelsch was shot down on July 3, 1951, while on a rescue mission and was later captured and died in captivity on Oct. 16, 1951. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in 1955. “It makes my head hurt,” Hal Barker, a founder of the Korean War Project who helped identify the memorial’s mistakes, told the outlet. “The fact is we have a memorial that has a huge number of errors and no way of paying to fix it.”
The errors on the wall were due to mistakes included on a list of names that was compiled by the Defense Department and then forwarded to the Interior Department to be given to the Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation for the wall’s construction. It’s also likely the omissions were unintentionally made because of the military’s changing definition of who qualifies as a casualty of war.
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