At dawn on 15 October 2002, the morning of the celebration dinner, we visited the Korean National Cemetery (Dongzak Dong in Korean).  This cemetery holds Korea's war dead just as does our own Arlington National Cemetery. 

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Joe and I and our Korean Vietnam veteran comrades pay our respects to all.

A view of the cemetery.

Joe and I and our Korean Vietnam veteran comrades pay our respects specifically to the dead of the Vietnam War.

Another view of the cemetery.

The graves of "The Ten Heroes".  At the beginning of the Korean War communist tanks invading South Korea were opposed by South Korean soldiers who did not have the proper weapons to destroy tanks.  These ten Korean soldiers, led by a Sergeant who was posthumously promoted to Lieutenant, charged the enemy tanks with nothing but hand grenades and gave their lives to destroy and stop them.  The Lieutenant's tombstone is the last one at the end of this line of stones and is raised slightly above the others.  The resulting explosions obliterated their bodies leaving them to be remembered by nothing more than these tombstones.