A basis was launched Wednesday to honor tens of 1000’s of United Nations forces who fought for South Korea within the 1950-53 Korean Conflict, with an inauguration ceremony held in Seoul.
As its first commemorative undertaking, the muse plans to erect a memorial wall bearing the names of about 40,000 U.N. forces who served within the civil warfare, via fundraising from authorities, company and particular person donors.
It can additionally search to put in sculptures depicting fight troops from 16 collaborating nations, in addition to these from six U.S. navy items, beneath the title, “U.N. forces on Korean battlefields.”
Envisioned initiatives additionally embrace the creation of a commemorative park in central Seoul to reinforce public entry.
The Korean Conflict resulted in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the 2 Koreas technically nonetheless at warfare. Practically 180,000 South Korean and U.N. Command troops have been killed through the warfare, together with 36,940 People.
Sixteen nations supplied fight troops to struggle on the South’s facet, together with Canada, France, New Zealand, Turkey, Thailand and Ethiopia.
