This talk explores James A. Michener’s journalism and fiction on the Korean War. Unlike the Vietnam War, the Korean War lacks representations that mark its place in American cultural memory. Using Michener’s “Forgotten Heroes of Korea” and The Bridges at Toko-ri (1953) as a case study of the forgotten war’s representation that was widely circulated during its time and viewing them in relation to his other works published in the first phase of the Cold War, this talk examines the conditions of their reception during the mid-twentieth century before suggesting some possible explanations as to why they faded from cultural memory.