Korean War Wall of Honor

Dedicated in 2003, this wall names Utahns who served in the Korean War — the "forgotten war" that, fifty years on, this memorial set out to remember properly. Korea fell into a gap in the national memory: too soon after World War II, too overshadowed later by Vietnam, fought to an inconclusive armistice that left the peninsula divided as it began. A wall of names is the right answer to that forgetting. It insists, person by person, that the cost was real even if the country preferred not to dwell on it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.5 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.6 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 0.9 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.3 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Pearl Harbor Memorial — steps away
• Utah World War I Pagoda Memorial — steps away
• Medal of Honor Recipients Monument — steps away
• Liberty Bell Tower (3) Markers — steps away