Re: Korea - 50 years ago this week, Jan. 24-30

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

Casualties State-by-State
history1900s.about.com/cs/koreanwarpows/


koreanwar-Veterans,POWs,and MIAs  5th web page down  after typping in  these
words in google search engine bar

korean war wall killed in  action

Click on  colorado and you well  find dick roesngrant killed  10th Aug  1951

Les Hanson     A Longago Airman




----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Davino" <mdavino@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Korea - 50 years ago this week, Jan. 24-30


> An interesting piece of information.  This isn't the
> first time I have read something about a surviving
> family member refusing to accept a posthumous Korean
> War Medal of Honor from Harry Truman.  Even Bill
> Clinton didn't experience this humiliation.  I think
> both wives of the Medal of Honor winners from the
> Somalia operation accepted their husband's  Medal of
> Honor from Clinton.
>
> --- Brooke Rowe <global-national-security@pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> > Korea - 50 years ago this week, Jan. 24-30
>
> >
> > Jan. 29 -- Edith Rosengrant, widowed mother of Pfc.
> > Dick Rosengrant,
> > who won the Medal of Honor posthumously for actions
> > in Korea, returns
> > the medal to President Truman "as not being fit from
> > you."
> >
>
> This story may be in error though.  I have not been
> able to find a citation for a Korean War MOH winner by
> his name.  the ABMC web site does list a KIA named
> Dick Rosengrant.  Here is the entry:
>
> Dick Rosengrant
> Baca, Colorado
> Born 1932
> Private First Class, U.S. Army
> Killed in Action
> Died August 10, 1951 in Korea
> Private First Class Rosengrant was a member of Company
> B, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was
> seriously injured in South Korea on April 8, 1951 and
> returned to duty on April 19, 1951. He was Killed in
> Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on
> August 10, 1951.
>
>
>
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