{"id":1940,"date":"2009-07-23T18:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T08:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2009-07-23T18:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T08:13:21","slug":"korean-war-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Korean War Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/3748932488\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2519\/3748932488_acfb4dc018_t.jpg\" alt=\"korean war memorial\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2692317106\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3170\/2692317106_fee4917edd_t.jpg\" alt=\"World Youth Day - Part III - two worlds collide\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">rally<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ever since I started riding to work, I have had to detour around a construction site. They were building a Korean War Memorial. I first saw that they were going to do this at the no-to-pope rally. This afternoon the barriers were down and we got to see the memorial.\u00a0 Of course the Korean War, was never a war. It was a Police Action. I knew some veterans in Upwey who were very upset. You see they could not get any of the ex-serviceman stuff like pensions because it was not a war. They had been duped severely by a government more intent on saving money that looking after it&#8217;s soldiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/266832350\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/113\/266832350_ec4db1e828_t.jpg\" alt=\"North Korea\" width=\"100\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Also, I now have been to Korea and the <a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=874\">DMZ<\/a> and the sites of some <a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=896\">fierce fighting<\/a>.\u00a0 I was also there during the failed first nuclear bomb test in North Korea. It gives one a different perspective on the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">2009:07:28: I went into the memorial last night and noted it only lists the countries on the allied side. When will someone build a memorial to those who died in a war, rather than a memorial just to commemorate those on one side who died? After-all, we should be pointing out that those who dies did so in the belief that theirs was a just cause, even if one disagrees with that opinion, and we should showing what a tragedy it is that we as humans are still fighting wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I started riding to work, I have had to detour around a construction site. They were building a[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1114,2014,2293,2537,2568,3002,3936],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-dmz","tag-korean-war","tag-memorial","tag-no-to-pope","tag-nuclear-bomb","tag-rally","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}