{"id":30323,"date":"2023-03-06T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/06\/lawmakers-furious-over-misspelt-names-on-korean-war-memorial\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:50:21","slug":"lawmakers-furious-over-misspelt-names-on-korean-war-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2023\/03\/06\/lawmakers-furious-over-misspelt-names-on-korean-war-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers furious over misspelt names on Korean war memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

House and Senate lawmakers are demanding answers on how hundreds of service members\u2019 names were misspelled or mixed-up on stone markers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial <\/a>despite warnings from advocates about the potential for mistakes years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cErrors of this magnitude should not have made it past the initial blueprints, much less carved into stone, and certainly not erected and unveiled to the public,\u201d a bipartisan group of key congressional leaders wrote<\/a> in a March 3 letter to Defense Department leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe find these errors deeply concerning and write to seek accountability on how the Remembrance Wall\u2019s glaring flaws went unnoticed until post-construction,\u201d <\/b>the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spring 2021, ahead of plans to unveil a new remembrance wall at the memorial<\/a> featuring the names of more than 36,000 Americans who died in support of the war, <\/b>members of the Korean War Project<\/a> warned of numerous discrepancies in the National Archives and Records Administration list officials planned to use to complete the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\t