Lawmakers furious over misspelt names on Korean war memorial

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Lawmakers furious over misspelt names on Korean war memorial
By Leo Shane III
Monday, Mar 6
Washington, D.C.'s Korean War Memorial looks great from a distance but many of the names are misspelt. (2015 photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brian Hamilton/Army)

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

“Errors 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,” a bipartisan group of key congressional leaders wrote in a March 3 letter to Defense Department leaders.

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