Korean War Deaths Recounted

For decades after the 1950-1953 Korean War, the United States officially listed 54,246 American dead, and that figure was etched on the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 2000, officials reexamined the records and found that a government clerk had wrongly included thousands of postwar accidental and illness deaths in the total. The corrected count of combat and theater deaths was 36,940.

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