Help the Korean War Project stay online

You can make a difference by donating today to Korean War Project. Our need is urgent. Funds will go directly to our daily operations. We run our system on servers and computers from our apartment in Dallas, TX.

This is our second outreach of this type. Our goal is $20,000.00 for this new effort. Much more is actually needed to sustain and grow our operations. Details are listed below.

Online since Feb of 1995, a resource for the history of the Korean War, networking among veterans and family. Interactive data files. Our website was the first non-governmental entity to feature the Korean War.

We became a non-profit in February of 1997 with a seed grant from the Tribune McCormick Foundation, Chicago, IL. Mr. Charles Brumback was key to that grant taking place.

Our immediate need is for funds to continue operations. Our donor base has eroded due to age, infirmity, or death. Most of our donors since the inception of our nonprofit (501c3) have been Korean War Veterans, families, students, researchers, or government employees.

It is imperative that we continue to be online to present our US casualty files while performing more research and edits on those files. We continue to hope that a strong chance exists that the US Congress will mandate the Department of Defense to work with us to address the copious number of errors and omissions on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance.

Hal has addressed many of the issues described above. We shall need funding for several years in order to fulfill our commitment to fix all the errors and omissions we have found over 30 years of working with the casualty data. Staffing for this anticipated work will be significant. and costly.

Almost three years ago, we created a change dot org petition titled: "Fix The Name Errors and Omissions on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance" to address all the issues. The petition clearly describes what is needed. See: https://chng.it/4jCVH57MJX

We do not have any corporate, institutional, or governmental financial support.

Some of our core missions have been to share wartime records, and creating messaging areas to foster networking, and assist the Dpt of Defense to find family members to donate DNA and/or information on those who were declared MIA- Missing in Action or Unaccounted For.

The latter mission began in 1995 when we first visited Crystal City which is across from the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The program became interactive in late 1999 with our Finding The Families > https://www.koreanwar.org/html/finding-the-families.html

Our Looking For section lists thousands of US Forces units that served in Korea. Those areas contain thousands of entries. Those entries have connected countless thousands of people since 1995 > https://www.koreanwar.org/html/looking-for.html

We have a special section for those who served after the Truce of July 27 1953 called DMZ Vets 1953 to present. That section also has an area for toxic chemical exposure including Agent Orange (in Korea) > https://www.koreanwar.org/html/dmzvets.htm

The menu selection in each of these areas points to many resources.

We have a huge map inventory and have transposed most of them on a Google Earth presentation which can overlay onto maps that were current during the war.

> https://www.koreanwar.org/html/maps.html

Tip: For Google Earth > https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean-war-google-earth.html

Both of us respond to inquiries by email, phone, or posts made on the website.

Periodic emailed newsletters are part of our working system. They are delivered to those who are donors/sponsors and/or have posted on the website.

You may read about our background with the link to About The Project

> https://www.koreanwar.org/html/about-the-project.html

It is easy to see how much content we two brothers have been able to place online for the public. All access has been free to the public but funded by voluntary contributions.

Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/KoreanWarProject

Twitter (X) > @KoreanWarVets

Neither of us is ready to shut down our corner of the internet. If you can help, please do.

Hal Barker, Founder of the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, DC

Ted Barker, Veteran 1963-1970 and Administrator of the Korean War Project, Dallas, TX