Everyone who has served in Korea from 1950 on, my late father, your uncle, me, your neighbor, the kid down the street, was under the United Nations Command. Plus, some of those remains might turn out to be British, Turks, Australians or some other allied forces.
Good point!
They did, indeed, fight and die under the flag of the United Nations.
However, I am as positive as I can be that they will be solemnly buried under the Flag of the United States of America. That is the flag they fought and died FOR.
“Plus, some of those remains might turn out to be British, Turks, Australians or some other allied forces.”
Or animal remains, as we have received in the past.
“...under the United Nations Command...”
There was no UN military command. The UN command was all political. The military command was all USA. I was there 65 years ago. It was not called a war, but it was a hard fought, deadly war. We took huge numbers of casualties right up until the day of the cease fire. The two primary countries engaged were the USA and South Korea. And believe me, the South Koreans were, and are great soldiers. There were others but they were in much smaller numbers, the sum total of all the others was regimental or brigade size. There were Brits, Aussies, Canadians, French, Turks and some others. An interesting feature, I thought, was that the South Korean government placed their entire military force under direct control of the United States commanders.