Dedicated in 1991, the New York Korean War Veteran’s Memorial, commemorating what has often been called “The Forgotten War,” predates the one on the National Mall by four years. The silhouette cut into the 15 feet of black granite is known as the “Universal Soldier.” The flags below represent the countries that participated in the UN sponsored mission to repel the North from its invasion of the South.

You can see the Statue of Liberty through the soldier’s rear boot, and a brief but pointed web search I conducted could not turn up any other photos to feature this perspective. This is possibly because getting the shot to look like this requires a bit of height – I was on tippy-toes myself and stand roughly 6’2″ —  and there is nowhere to stand to aid in getting the shot.  On July 27 at 10 am, the sun shines through the soldier’s head and illuminates a plaque on the ground in front of the memorial, representing the moment that hostilities ceased in 1953.