UN Memorial Cemetery in Korea
Manicured war cemetery with rows of white headstones, a reflecting koi pond, and flags of twenty-one nations.
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This guide to the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan opens with Turn Toward Busan, the minute of silence a Canadian veteran proposed that nations now observe together each November. It traces why the ritual points to this hillside: the summer of nineteen fifty, when Seoul fell and the government fled south, and Busan swelled overnight with refugees and arriving ships of wounded and dead. From there it follows how the United Nations Command opened this ground for burial in 1951, and how the graves that remain came to be shared among nations. Walk the Wall of Remembrance and you'll find the names of soldiers whose bodies never made it home.
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