Fort Lee students give voice to ‘comfort women’ abused during World War II

After two years of hard work of studying the issue, persuading the City officials and raising fund, the YCFL (Youth Council of Fort Lee) – a student organization led by Korean American high school students in Fort Lee, New Jersey – successfully unveiled the latest “Comfort Women” Memorial in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Wednesday, May 23rd.

In the midst of Japan’s $500 Million PR campagin to whitewash and erase its one of the greatest war crimes against women, dubbed as “History War” by the Sankei Shimbun, educating the truth to our youth and remembering the history is all the more important.

KAFC salutes the 25 member students of YCFL and the City and community leaders in Fort Lee, New Jersey that made it possible.

The Honorable Mayor Mark Sokolich reportedly said,

“It reminds everybody that sees it from afar and close up and reads the beautiful poem, it reminds them of those atrocities and the path and the plight that those women took,” Sokolich said. “It is respect of history so we never, ever forget what happened in the past so we don’t ever repeat it in the future.”

See North Jersey report including a video and article about the unveiling.