UNMCK - UNITED NATIONS MEMORIAL CEMETERY IN KOREA

An unveiling Ceremony will take place on the lower mainland at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday 14th of July, 2007 that may well be a first in Canadian history. Korean immigrants, now Canadian citizens, have not only raised almost one million dollars, they have built a most impressive memorial.

This initiative by the 60,000 strong Korean-Canadian Community based in the area of the City of Burnaby will specifically recognize the 36 servicemen from British Columbia who made the supreme sacrifice during the Korean War 1950/53 and during the Peacekeeping period 1953/56.

Their names will be engraved on the Central Park Memorial (corner of Boundary Road and Kingsway Road ) including rank, surname, given Names, decorations and unit. Total Canadian casualties were 516 killed, 1558 wounded and countless others suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome.

Approximately 100 servicemen from British Columbia were wounded during the Korean War.

Korea remains as Canada ’s third bloodiest war, after WWI and WWII and, just ahead of the South African War, the last colonial war more than a century ago. Canadian servicemen and women are putting their lives in harm’s way at this very moment in Afghanistan .