70 Years of War... Who Placed Flowers on the 'Flowerlike' War Dead's Graves?

Gyeongnam Jeongbo University, 70 Students from Defense Department Participate in 6·25 War UN Veterans Wreath-Laying Ceremony

On the 25th, students from the Defense Department of Gyeongnam Information College visited the UN Memorial Park in Daeyeon-dong, Nam-gu, Busan, to pay tribute by laying flowers at the graves of fallen UN soldiers who participated in the war.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Yong-woo] University students in uniform place flowers at the gravesites where UN war veterans rest.

Did the soldiers, now reduced to a handful of soil, ever imagine they would receive floral tributes from the descendants living on the land they exchanged for their lives? They were at the prime of their youth, and flowers came from foreign friends of the same age and kind.

About 70 students from the Defense Department of Gyeongnam Jeongbo University visited the UN Memorial Park on the 25th. They came to pay tribute with flowers at the gravesites of the "blue-eyed" UN veterans during the "70th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony for UN War Dead of the Korean War."

Jin Ye-ji (20), a first-year student in the Defense Department at the university, said, "I am deeply moved and feel renewed that we university students can personally place flowers at the gravesites where veterans from 22 countries rest."

She added, "I want to become a junior military officer in the future and be a cornerstone in building a strong Republic of Korea where no young people are sacrificed in foreign wars, ensuring that the sacrifices of the UN war dead are not in vain."

The university's Defense Department has been producing junior military officers such as officers and non-commissioned officers, who form the backbone of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, for 14 years. According to the university, over 90% of these graduates enter professional military service annually.

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