Korean War memorial’s wall of names is said to be riddled with errors, omissions

Megan Marx plans to visit the Korean War Veterans Memorial's new Wall of Remembrance on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the death of her mother's first husband, Navy Ensign Dwight C. Angell, during the war.

But she won't find his name among the 36,000 fallen Americans etched in granite on the memorial in Washington. Angell was killed at age 24 when his Navy reconnaissance plane was shot down on Jan. 18, 1953, off the coast of China. Terri Mumley, who plans to join Marx in Washington, won't find the name of her grandfather Lloyd Smith Jr. on the wall, either. Smith, 30, was on the same plane as Angell.
Their names were left off the memorial because the losses were deemed to have occurred outside the direct war zone, an omission, the women say, that was an error, one they are lobbying to fix.
The omissions are among hundreds of errors that mar the memorial, according to the women and two brothers in Texas, Hal and Ted Barker, who have amassed a trove of data about names of those included on the wall, and those excluded