Korean War Memorial

Leaving the Vietnam Memorial we walked back across Lincoln's eyesight and turned east along the Reflecting Pool to see the Korean War Memorial. A powerful collection of soldiers trekking up a gentle hill alongside a black wall that has pictures rather than names of those who fought in the first of the undeclared wars that now seem to be the norm. An artwork that gains power from the fact that the viewer sees himself alongside or trailing the soldiers, thus more involved than he might otherwise be.

The looks on the faces of the soldiers made me nickname them the 'Ghost Soldiers,' looking as if they were trying to figure out how in the world they wound up in Washington.