[SoConPubbie]

The United Nations was conceived, by us, as a supra-national government that would keep peace between nation states and other actors. The Korean War was the first major test of that hypothesis and as unsatisfying as the result might seem, it worked. The Sino-Soviet bloc was not able to invade and take over an independent nation and South Korea has developed into a first world country after being terribly devastated.

The United Nations is a disreputable organization populated mostly by our enemies.

I don't care if the original conflict was fought under the authority of the U.N.

These are U.S. soldiers who fought and died.

They deserve the respect and dignity to have their coffins draped in the Stars and Stripes.

How many of those soldiers do you really believe were fighting for the U.N. and not the U.S.?

[2ndDivisionVet]

All the forces who fought against the North Korean/Red Chinese invasion did so under the flag and authority of the United Nations, whether it was the Kiwis, the Diggers, the GIs, the Turks or whoever. To this day it is called the UN command.

[PAR35]

These are U.S. soldiers who fought and died.

How, exactly, do you know that? Pentecostal "Word of Knowledge"?

[M1911A1]

I’m a vet who served in peacetime Korea, and I know enough about military history and traditions to be completely OK with the UN flag in this case.

Remains not solidly ID’d. Could be Brits, Canadians, Greeks, Diggers, or one of many other countries that sent token forces to the Korean war.

It’s the historical chain of command at play. It’s correct, smart and respectful to handle it this way.

I have little use for the UN, and it took a freak circumstance of Russia being absent from the Security Council that led to the UN actually accomplishing something good with military forces for once it’s sorry history.

These remains are probably American, but they went into battle in a post nuclear age hoping that the world had finally got smart by getting together to stop armed aggression by communist puppet states. No more Chamberlain style appeasement.

Many UN nations sent token or sometimes more significant forces. The US Korean War forces fought as Americans under American commanders, but the authority that made it all legal was UN, and it was a UN operation.

The fact that the UN has morphed into an America hating leach living on US taxpayer funding isn’t the issue here. To me, it just points out how shocking it is to see the UN flag associated with something honorable involving military action.

It was a long time ago and the UN has gone beyond downhill since, but removing the UN flag from those remains would be too much like the Stars and Bars banning social justice warrior tactics of our domestic Reds. Erasing history to fit current ideas isn’t learning from it.