The message sent out was simple: write a letter to someone lost in the Korean War. Within a day, the responses started coming to the Korean War Project started 11 years ago by the Barker brothers. In the three weeks since the plea went out, the brothers have gotten more than 500 letters and e-mails from daughters who lost their fathers to veterans who lost friends to schoolchildren thanking those who died for their freedom.
The Barkers, inspired by their father, started the Korean War Project, an online memory bank for the 1950s conflict that claimed about 36,500 U.S. lives. They have helped comrades reconnect and tried to get relatives of the missing to submit DNA to the U.S. government to help with identification.
Korean War Project: http://www.koreanwar.org
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