Many years ago (early/mid 90’s), I attended the opening of a new war/veterans memorial. It had a number of black granite panels which had been etched (acid? laser? mechanically? dunno) with scenes from various wars… WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Gulf War. It was all ok, but I had two issues. First was the nature of the etched surfaces: the etching looked cool, but was *really* shallow, and I wondered about how well it would stand up to wind, rain, time… it didn’t seem likely that the basic forces of erosion would do these microscopically thin etchings much good in the decades to come. My second problem was the Gulf War panel: it showed troops, tanks and a helicopter, as you might expect. But instead of an AH-64, it was an Agusta A129 Mangusta. An Italian helicopter that I know the US didn’t use, and I’m reasonably sure that *nobody* used in the Gulf War. I quietly pointed this out, but I don’t know what happened after that.

As appalled as I was by that artistic/historical screwup, that’s nothing compared to this nightmare:

Korean War memorial is a historical photoshop horror

Just… wow. M1 Abrams tanks. Huey helicopters. Troops in Viet Nam era gear. Troops in Gulf War era gear. F-16s in Thunderbirds livery. POW-MIA flags. Plus, the actual production of the monument was outsourced to either Egypt or India (sources seem to differ on that point). Just… wow.