Korean War Veterans Memorial

About this audio guide

This guide to the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. follows sculptor Frank Gaylord, a World War Two paratrooper himself, who was told not to glorify the war and chose instead to make his nineteen soldiers look afraid rather than heroic. It traces how their reflection in the black granite wall beside them doubles the count to thirty-eight, one for every degree of the parallel that still divides Korea. You'll also hear about the more than two thousand four hundred photographs of support troops etched into that same wall, pulled from the National Archives.