Remembering Korean War Veterans

As a Vietnam veteran, I want to respond to Hearn regarding the Korean veteran as the forgotten veteran.

There is no doubt that the Korean vets never got their due. The United States was a different society in the ‘50s. The Korean vets never organized, never forced our society to know, to remember, the price of participating in a non-war.

Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) recognizes and remembers the Korean vet. VVA has endorsed a memorial for the Korean veterans. A lone Vietnam vet, Jan Scruggs, was the force that eventually brought the Vietnam Memorial into being. It was Vietnam vets who dedicated our memorial, The Wall, to the people of America. It seems that it should have been the other way around. If we had waited, we would probably still be waiting.

The Vietnam vets will help the Korean vets. We are there for you too. Come into the vet centers. Come into VVA. We can help one another. It isn’t the veterans who have been apathetic all of these years.

JIM ROTHBLATT

Palm Springs