VANCOUVER – Local Korean War veterans will observe the 66th anniversary of the conflict with a ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The observance will be at the Clark County Korean War Veterans Memorial on Vancouver’s Veterans Affairs campus.
The war started June 25, 1950, when Communist North Korea invaded South Korea.
Participants will include members of the Richard L. Quatier Chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association of Southwest Washington.
Ed Barnes, chapter commander, will be one of the featured speakers. The other speaker will be Byung Ji, chairman of the Korean Society of Vancouver; Ji also co-chaired the county’s Korean War Veterans Memorial project.
Ji and Barnes will lay a wreath at the memorial as part of the ceremony.
