DC -- Mall -- Event: Korean War 50th Anniversary (2003):
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KWAR_030727_015.JPG: Anthony Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
KWAR_030727_025.JPG: I believe this is Caspar Weinberger
KWAR_030727_078.JPG: James McEachin
KWAR_030727_083.JPG: I believe left to right here is Peter Pace (Vice Chairman of the USMC), Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense), Robert Rider (board of governors of the Post Office), and Ed McMahon.
KWAR_030727_086.JPG: I believe the guy on the right is Robert Rider, who's on the board of governors for the Post Office.
KWAR_030727_127.JPG: John Alli. He did the photograph for the new Korean War stamp. As an article on the CBS news site ( http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/25/national/main565114.shtml ) says:
At first glance, the new Korean War Veterans Memorial stamp appears to show soldiers trudging through the snow, but it's really a photo of the statues at the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington.
The 19 stainless-steel statues depict servicemen in the Army, the Marines, the Navy and the Air Force. Shown marching in a wedge formation as if on patrol, the statues also represent an ethnic cross-section of the United States. The memorial was dedicated eight years ago.
For airline pilot and Gulf War veteran John Alli, taking the photograph was a case of honoring his father upon his retirement from 40 years of government service, including time serving in Korea.
"I took the photo to give something meaningful for my father," he told CBSNews.com's Lloyd de Vries.
Alli, who now flies for United Express rather than the Marine Corps, went to extraordinary lengths to photograph the Memorial, getting up in the middle of the night to drive from his home in suburban Baltimore to the Capital in a heavy snowstorm.
The weather was important, Alli said.
"In nice bright light it just...they look like statues," he said.
But a quick look at the photograph may fool the eye into thinking it's a photograph of actual soldiers. In fact, Alli calls the picture "Real Life."
"I think it does represent the Korean War and that bitter cold," he said. "I waited until the weather was the worst, because I knew it would remind him of the Korean War. He always talked about how cold it was."
The Marine Reserve pilot's friends suggested he enter the photo in a naval magazine's contest "and I won first prize"
It appeared on the cover of Naval Institute Proceedings, and from there it came to the attention of the Postal Service, which based the stamp's design on it.
The stamp will be launched Sunday during the Defense Department's ceremony commemorating the Korean War armistice 50 years ago. It should be in local post offices on Monday.
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when communist troops from North Korea invaded South Korea. U.S. troops were sent to lead the United Nations force defending South Korea. By the end of the action, 34,000 Americans had died in combat, 37,000 from all causes, and 103,000 had been wounded.
In 1985, the Postal Service issued the 22-cent Veterans Korea stamp. The Korean War, a 33-cent stamp, was issued in 1999 as part of the 1950s "Celebrate The Century" stamp pane.
By Lloyd A. de Vries
İMMIII CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
KWAR_030727_204.JPG: This was the artist of the poster honoring the event
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2003_DC_KWar_030726 DC -- Verizon Center -- Event: Korean War 50th Anniversary event (at MCI Center)
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