
Unknown or forgotten by most Americans, the Korean War divided a people with several millenniums of shared history. Memory of Forgotten War conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of four Korean American survivors whose experiences and memories embrace the full circle of the war: its outbreak and the day-to-day struggle for survival, separation from family members across the DMZ, the aftermath of a devastated Korean peninsula, and immigration to the United States. Each person reunites with relatives in North Korea conveying beyond words the meaning of four decades of family loss. Their stories belie the notion that war ends for civilians when the guns are silenced and foreshadow the futures of countless others displaced by ongoing military conflict today.

From the age of 13, Temujin's son will inherit his father's hearth. But his teammate Jamuha was the first to stop him on his way to become the king of Mongolia, and even King Tooril of Hareid, who became his father instead of his father, stood against him.

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Command of Group 559 assigned Transport Stations 9 and 12 to urgently recruit young female volunteers for training as truck drivers to supply the battlefield. The story follows four women—Chau, Han, Sa, and Thuong—who drive from Ben Thuy to the Western Truong Son. During their missions, the sacrifices of Han, Thuong, Sa, and Chau’s brother leave her with deep sorrow. Yet, with determination and strength, Chau continues to the battlefield to fulfill her duty.

Sailor Popeye, faced with many menial tasks, fastens a couple of mops to the prop of his plane, substitutes water for bullets in his machine gun and goes about cleaning the deck of the ship.