The Nation - News from June 14, 1989

Soldiers heading down a tree-lined path into battle will be a key element of the $6-million Korean War veterans’ memorial in Washington, according to sources familiar with the plan. A one-eighth scale model of the Korean memorial is being unveiled today at a White House ceremony. Architects of the project, to be built across the Reflecting Pool from the Vietnam War Memorial, also contemplate a wall containing inscriptions about the war. Sources described the project as a combination of sculpture, architecture and landscape design embracing a succession of granite or bronze soldiers intended to collectively depict a transition from the anxious but brave entrance into war and combat and the return home.