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For our memorial, then, we
got 19 poncho-shrouded statues, straggling along; but, by reflection,
38 troops representing the Army platoon of the era, the 38 months of
war and the 38th parallel that divided North and South Korea.
The Korean War as well as
the Vietnam War fought communism. In the outcome, the policy of containment
was valid. Communism was vanquished. The veterans of both these wars
should stand with pride because they stopped the steady encroachment
of communism and they possibly prevented World War III.
In the Mall, close to the
long reflecting pool, down Constitution Avenue from the Washington Monument,
near the Lincoln Memorial is “The Wall,” the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. Across from it, across the reflecting pool, on the other side
of the Lincoln Memorial is the site of the Korean War Veterans Memorial,
OUR MONUMENT.
Here, the two adjacent memorials
reflect testimony to those who fought and died in these controversial,
seemingly non-victorious wars and, yet, by the end of the century, these
wars have emerged as decisive contributors which led to the containment
and downfall of communism.
We have triumphed at last!
These are OUR MEMORIALS!
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