Monuments are stone monuments erected in honor of deceased people or major events, or monuments that celebrate victory in war.
There are many monuments in our country, such as the Tiananmen People's Heroes Monument, the Xinhai Revolution Monument, the May Fourth Movement Monument, the Anti-Japanese War Monument, the Liberation War Monument...
There are also many various monuments in the United States, and one of them is very unique and inextricably linked to us.
It is an exaggeration to say that it is a monument, because it is a statue of nineteen bronze soldiers and a wall on one side. This is the Korean War (we call it the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea) memorial in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the soldiers who fought in the war.
Two reasons why it is unique have something to do with China:
When the bronze sculpture is reflected on the wall, 19 becomes 38 soldiers, representing the 38 months of war, and it also represents the 38° north latitude, which Chinese the familiar "three-eighth line" that separates North Korea and South Korea.
Two: It is the only wordless war memorial in the United States, and there are only nineteen American soldiers searching for something in the entire monument, looking cautious. Unlike other war memorials, the great deeds of the United States are specially booked!
According to reports, the United States has been greatly troubled by the construction of this monument, first, to comfort the veterans who survived the Korean War, and second, to take into account the face of the United States. It was finally completed by the cooperation of several top designers of the famous Cooper-Lecky Architects design firm, a wordless war memorial that Americans did not want to mention and had to mention.
This is a bit like the wordless monument of the ancient Chinese empress Wu Zetian, which is not easy to depict and simply does not say anything. The Korean War was a lingering shadow in the minds of Americans, especially American soldiers.
U.S. Army General, United Nations Commander-in-Chief Clarke said he was the first U.S. commander in U.S. history to sign an armistice without victory.
For victory! More than 2.4 million heroic sons and daughters of the Chinese volunteered to fight abroad in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In September 1953, the Volunteer Command counted 366,000 combat casualties and 386,000 non-combat casualties. Many of the heroes and martyrs were buried in foreign lands. We have not forgotten the heroes, and we are still searching for their remains! It was their bloody struggle, their courage to fight, and their fear of sacrifice that thwarted the invincible US military and made the Us Korean War Memorial indescribable!
Writing this article, on the occasion of the Qingming Festival, I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the fearless martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea!