On Flag Day in 1992, then-President George H.W. The Korean War Veterans Memorial was confirmed on April 20, 1986. The memorial was dedicated in 1995 by then-President Bill Clinton and South Korea's then-President Kim Young Sam. Today, historians and even veterans of the conflict may call the war in Korea "The Forgotten War," but tucked on the National Mall, across from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, is a ghostly memorial designed to ensure that the conflict, those who served in it and the almost 25,000 American troops who died as a result are remembered. Relatively little territory changed hands, given the volume of the destruction the war caused. South Korea's defense ministry estimates more than 137,000 South Korean troops died in the war. Between 300,000 and 900,000 communist troops were killed, along with an estimated 2.5 million Korean civilians. service members had died during the fighting. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's front page announcing the end of fighting in Korea.
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