Korean and Vietnam Memorials

We continued with the memorial theme and moved on to the Korean War Memorial. This one is new and shows 19 exhausted, infantry soldiers, trudging across wet land. They are 7ft steel statues. This was an emotive memorial and really gave a sense of war, especially as it was pouring with rain again. I liked this better than the Vietnam War memoria,l which we saw next. This surprised me, as I’ve wanted to see this one for so long and it was not what I expected at all, even though I’ve seen numerous photos. I think it was because it was so busy there, that you couldn’t really get an overall view. It is shaped in a ‘V’ with the 58000 soldier’s names who died between 1959-75 engraved onto shiny black granite. It caused great controversy when it was built in 1982 and was criticised for its minimalism, but today it remains one of the most visited memorials in the world.