| svsavory | 30 May 2014 9:42 p.m. PST |
An Ohio town recently unveiled a new Korean War memorial. Unfortunately, the engraved artwork contained numerous historical errors. link "Among the other mistakes are images of fighter jets introduced in the 1970s flying over soldiers from the Vietnam War standing near a tank introduced in the 1980s that is rolling toward soldiers who look like they are from the Desert Storm campaign of the early 1990s, military historians have said." |
79thPA  | 31 May 2014 5:53 a.m. PST |
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| A Twiningham | 31 May 2014 6:16 a.m. PST |
"Production was outsourced to India…" |
| troopwo | 31 May 2014 6:39 a.m. PST |
There is a bronze for the Canadian Korean War monument somewhere that kind of looks like a Korean Elvis wearing battledress. I suppose he is a little more accurate with this coming out. |
| Pan Marek | 31 May 2014 7:01 a.m. PST |
The granite equivalent of clip art. Didn't anyone look at the design before giving final approval? |
| whoa Mohamed | 31 May 2014 7:20 a.m. PST |
It shows american forces from the opening of hostilities to the present day. The rest of the world see's that conflict as it is …an Armistice (with all sides still technically at war)While I believe that the majority of the town this was commissioned for think it should be restricted to the time period of the NK invasion of the south to the signing of the armistice.
If thats what they paid for that's what they should get but we should remember the close to a 1000 (guestimate but its got to be close I think)of American troops killed or wounded from the Armistice to I think 1992 when stationed on and patrolling the DMZ..
The are present in the art A B29, HH19,as well as UH60,M1 and I could not see well enough to ID the aircraft. Uniforms from the 1950s to the 1990s |
| zoneofcontrol | 31 May 2014 10:04 a.m. PST |
whoa M-
The dates inscribed on the monument itself are "1950 – 1953." It also excluded the names of 6 local service members killed in the conflict. I could see the locals' dissatisfaction if the fundraiser was advertised as one thing and they ended up with something else. |
| whoa Mohamed | 31 May 2014 11:18 a.m. PST |
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| ComradeCommissar | 31 May 2014 1:22 p.m. PST |
"…the [veterans group] committee members did not notice the inaccuracies when they saw an image of the planned memorial." |
 Legion 4  | 31 May 2014 8:59 p.m. PST |
Yes, I saw this story on another site … too bad … But whoa has a point, as IIRC, both he and I ran ops on the DMZ at different times in the '80s … However, what did the locals ask for ? And why didn't anyone check it out the plans before it went into production ? Some one who knows … |
| John the OFM | 01 Jun 2014 8:04 a.m. PST |
Politicians and money…
What do you expect?
The same mentality leads to Hollywood war movies. And we NEVER complain about Horrywood war movies on TMP, do we? |
| MarescialloDiCampo | 04 Jun 2014 6:09 a.m. PST |
No John, we never complain about anything |
| Legion 4 | 05 Jun 2014 11:10 a.m. PST |
Next we'll be complaining about no one complains here on TMP … |
| tuscaloosa | 06 Jun 2014 3:32 p.m. PST |
Easy to blame something like this on politicians, but politicians weren't responsible: "It is astonishing that veterans committee did not listen to warnings of inaccuracies or gather easily available information before putting up something that is shameful," |
goes beyond the straight line.