{"id":119005,"date":"2026-01-11T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:05:06","slug":"righting-wrongs-on-the-korean-war-memorial-texas-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119005\/","title":{"rendered":"Righting Wrongs on the Korean War Memorial \u2013 Texas Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editors\u2019 note: This segment first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/tm-presents-pbs-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Monthly Presents<\/a>, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/texas-monthly-presents-the-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PBS.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Americans died in the Korean War, yet memorials across the country are riddled with errors and inaccuracies. The conundrum is one that executive writer Michael Hall knows personally, as his father, who served as a doctor in the war, struggled to have the U.S. military correct a record with his own name. In exploring his father\u2019s story, Hall met two brothers in Dallas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/korean-war-memorial-errors-hal-ted-barker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hal and Ted Barker<\/a>, who have been on a four-decade-long mission to correct history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editors\u2019 note: This segment first appeared on Texas Monthly Presents, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52014,27,29,3343,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-119005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-korean-war","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-history","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}