"rean War Project - Memorial Day 2003"

[Mike Yared <mikeyared@yahoo.com>]

Korean War Project - Memorial Day 2003 
To: mikeyared@yahoo.com 



Korean War Project (Since 1994)
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190
214-320-0342

http://www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_may_26_2003.html
("_" is an underscore not a "-" hyphen)

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May 26, 2003 Memorial Day Newsletter
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Table of Contents

1.  Remembering our Korean War Veterans
2.  A Young Korean Remembers
3.  Bookstore
4.  USS Orleck DD-886
5.  "Shot Heard 'Round the World." -  October 3, 1951
6.  Reunions and Commemoration Events
7.  A Son-in-Law Visits the Allegheny County Korean
War Memorial
8.  This Mailing List (going to  26,000 + persons)
9.  DMZ Veterans Resources
10. I Remember Korea Bumper Stickers - Membership
Drive

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1. Remembering our Korean War Veterans
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Today marks another day for friends, family and
current day 
service men and women to pause in Remembrance. The 
sacrifices of those who paid the ultimate price are
even more evident to us this year with the recent war 
activity.

Those who continue to wear the physical and mental
scars of 
war whether veteran or family need to be thanked for
their 
contribution as well. 

Those who became POW - Prisoner of War and suffered 
deprivation at the hands of their captors deserve a
special 
Remembrance today. 

Close to 13,000 UN troops were held over time.  For US

Forces, just under 4700 men came home after Operation
Little 
and Big Switch.  Others who managed to escape,  never
given 
POW status, deserve to be recognized for the hardship 
endured.

The casualty rate among UN Forces held captive was 
staggering.

The call to service in the Korean Peninsula was
answered by 
an international force of arms. Medical units,
aviation, 
naval and/or infantry units arrived to assist in
stemming 
the tide of aggression from the North.

Civilians on both sides of the Demarcation Line in
Korea 
lost their lives by the thousands. Many more of them
became 
refugees. The ROK had upwards of 135,000 imprisoned or

reduced to involuntary service for the DPRK. 
Estimates of 
89,000  ROK citizens are still unaccounted for.

For those who served and those who continue the
tradition, 
We Shall Remember.

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2.  A Young Korean Remembers
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Ed Moynagh, USAF  Ret. first caught this recent KWP 
Guestbook entry:

             EMAIL: hidenet11@hotmail.com
             ENTRY: 73528
             DATE POSTED: 2003-05-11 23:11:32
  
          FIRSTNAME: Jung sik
          LASTNAME: Yoon
          STREET: State Univ of NewYork Wilson hall 9 
 
          CITY: Plattsburgh
          STATE: NY
          ZIP: 12901 2690
         
          COMMENTS: 

Hello,

I am a Korean student who is studying in the U.S.A. I
just 
found this web site from linked site. I sincerely
appreciate 
to you to help my country during the Korean war. By 
sacrificing nearly 60000 unit, you brought us liberty,
so we 
could keep our democracy. Again,Thank you so much for
your 
help. We will never forget it. 

and one more.. special thanks to missionaries. 

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3. Bookstore
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---a.---- 
Beautiful Feet & Real Peace
by Hubert Edward Reeves

Better known to thousands of KVETS as PFC Ed Reeves,
the 
author has his book in print.  Ed was a member of the
31st 
Infantry Regt. at the well-remembered Chosin Reservoir

battle.  He survived due to the efforts of Task Force
Faith 
and care of medical personnel in Korea, Japan and the
USA.

Ed has been a pen pal of the Korean War Project for
many 
years and we are proud to recognize his penmanship and

wonderful spirit.

Order:

Ed Reeves
1945 Forest View
Prescott, AZ 86305-5115

Cost: $15.00 by check or money order only.

---b.--- 
A Foxhole View, 
Personal accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans 
Edited by Louis Baldovi

Editor Note: more details as soon as we contact our
pal, 
Louis

>From Charles Fox, in Hawaii: Quoting from the Preface:

"Seventy Korean War combat veterans, from various
units, 
were invited to share their accounts of the war. Of
the 
seventy, fifty agreed to be interviewed. 

"All of the stories are woven together in
chronological 
order, starting in 1950, rather than presenting thirty
 
separate accounts".

"In comparison to the overall population of the United

States, Hawaii suffered three times as many wounded
and 
three and a half times the total number of
casualties".

"Of the sixteen nations, excluding the United States,
that 
sent ground combat units to Korea, only Turkey  and
the 
United Kingdom had more men killed in action than
Hawaii".

---c.---
The Price We Pay
by Ralph Adams

From: Ralph Adams adamsrent@hotmail.com

Ted, I had told  you I had written a book about the
Korean 
war. Titled,'The Price We Pay" I  have many pictures I
took 
in the Korean war. The book is almost 300 pages. 

I was a squad leader with the 3rd Infantry Division,
the 
same one that is in Iraq.
 
Send  $20.00 tax and shipping included.

Ralph Adams
1920 Atwood Dr.
Pensacola, FL 32514

---d.---
MIA - Korea, Sgt. Forehand's Family Still Searches
by Thomas Forehand

An online book: http://www.miakorea.com/korea/

Have you ever received a letter that came late? I did.
That 
letter was written in 1954 but did not arrive until 
1995–forty-one years later! Shortly before that letter

arrived, I had asked my aunt to send information about
my 
father's tour of duty in Korea. She obliged me by
sending a 
copy of that un-mailed, 1954 letter that I had never
even 
known existed. It was a letter she had typed to send
to me, 
a seven-year old. Yet for various reasons, in 1954 she
felt 
that she could not send it. For four decades, her
epistle 
lay buried under a dirty pile of family bitterness,
sickness 
and forgetfulness. In part, Aunt Peggy had withheld
this 
detailed information until she was convinced I would 
seriously appreciate my father’s experience. 

This book is about my late father Master Sergeant
Thomas A. 
Forehand. If he were alive today, he would be in his 
eighties. It is expected that few Americans remember
him, 
however, it is tragically unexpected that most
Americans 
remember little of the last war he played a part in --
The 
Korean War. 

---e. ---
Christmas in July
Edited by Hank Nicol donicol@northcoast.com

"Christmas in July" is a story by over 20 of us who
were in 
a battle on Christmas Hill during July 1953, the last
month 
of the Korean War. I am now collecting stories--and
writing 
my own--about earlier phases of the war.

I have edited "Christmas in July" which is on the web.
Go 
to:
http://www,northcoast.com/~dogface. 

If that doesn't work go to the website of Humboldt
State 
University, click on Department, click on History,
scroll 
down to  Dogface-Xmas Hill. 

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4. USS Orleck DD-886
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From: Roy Yater  Morgan55@attbi.com

Ted---I'm a Korean War vet and very much enjoy the 
newsletters.  

Other readers may be interested in the story of the 
destroyer on which I served during the war.  She was
built 
in Orange Texas shipyards in 1945 and fought in WWII,
Korea, 
and Vietnam.  

After nearly 40 years of distinguished service
she was decommissioned and sold to the Turkish Navy. 
A few 
years ago a group of interested patriots from Orange 
arranged to have her towed to Orange Texas, where she
is now 
being refurbished by volunteers. 

She is open to the public as an educational and
historical 
museum. The USS Orleck (DD886) is a proud old fighting
lady 
named for a valiant WWII skipper who, after evacuating
the 
entire crew, went down with his damaged ship when it
hit a 
mine while he was trying to ground it.  

The ship's web site is http://www.Orleck.com.  Her 
caretakers are seeking donations to provide her with a
badly 
needed dry-docking.

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5. "Shot Heard 'Round the World." -  October 3, 1951
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Last fall, the KWP alerted our viewers to a young Wall

Street Journal writer, Josh Prager. Josh received many
email 
from you and is still working on his book:

May 19,  2003 
From: Josh Prager jhp@nyc.rr.com

Hello. My name is Joshua Prager. I'm a reporter at the
Wall 
Street Journal currently on book leave writing about a

baseball game that took place on October 3,
1951--right in 
the middle of the battle at Heartbreak Ridge. The
event was 
a playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
New York 
Giants that culminated in Bobby Thomson's famed home
run, 
the "Shot Heard 'Round the World."

The radio call of the game was carried by Armed Forces
radio 
and I'd very much like to include a story or two about

soldiers in Korea who were able to listen to the game,

particularly if you were stationed at Heartbreak
Ridge. 

If you have an interesting story to share about
listening to 
the game while a soldier in Korea, I'd love to hear
it. 
Thank you so very much. My email is jhp@nyc.rr.com.

Sincerely,
Joshua Prager

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6.  Reunions and Commemoration Events
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Please visit individual Looking For unit messages and
our 
Reunions section. A partial listing of new reunion
alerts follows:

---a. ---
>From Phil Hill philhill@rangenet.com

Major Richard Bong Air Museum 

There is going to be a dedication of the Major Richard
Bong 
Air Museum in Superior Wisconsin on D-Day 6 June 3003
and 
they are inviting all members of the 49th 
Fighter-Bomber 
Group and Wing to attend.  

It is right on highway 53 and it goes 6 - 9 JUNE.

---b.---
1370th Military Police Squadron (Avn)

  I am a Korean veteran of before and during the war
and I 
am always attempting to locate friends who were there
with 
me.  

In your next newsletter I would really appreciate if
you 
would post a message asking any past members of the
1370th 
Military Police Squadron (Avn) to contact me who were 
stationed there at Kimpo from February 1948 until
August of 
1949.  

My e-mail address is as follows: goblue605@aol.com 
or they can write me at:
PO Box 24462
Tempe, Arizona 85285-4462.

John Calhoon, Scottsdale,  Arizona  

---c.---
The USS LSMR 404:
will hold its third reunion in Memphis, TN from Sept.
16 
through Sept. 19. 
Interested parties should contact Warren Gilmour at 
"warlyn97@aol.com" for info.  

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7. A Son-in-Law Visits the Allegheny County Korean War

Memorial
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From: ZARtess@aol.com
To: <tbarker@kwp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:30 PM

I would like to share a note I received from one of my

son-in- laws;

Earlier today, I was walking along the north shore
(between 
PNC Park and Heinz Field) and I noticed the Korean War

Memorial.  I've walked this stretch of the Allegheny
River 
Shore line several times when coming to/from 
Steelers/Pirates Games.  Until today, I have never
noticed 
the beauty of this Memorial.  The sun was shining on
it in 
such a way that all of the marble and bronze was
glowing.  I 
spent quite awhile walking through the Memorial.  I
have to 
be 100% honest:  the Korean War was never dealt with
in any 
of my history classes in school.  As a result, I got
quite a 
history lesson today.  The Memorial has a section
devoted to 
the events of the war and a chronological timeline. 
The 
names of all the servicemen from Allegheny County who
served 
during the conflict have their own brick.

About a half hour ago, I watched the arrival (on
American 
soil) of the first POW's home from the current War in
Iraq.

These two events today, really got me thinking about
how on 
any given day, a few hundred/thousand service
personnel keep 
several hundred million American citizens free.  What
an 
awesome task!  Often, I feel my generation is not 
appreciative (does not even attempt to grasp) the
level of 
sacrifice it takes to keep us free.  A lot of us have
always 
known, but never truly grasped the required level of 
sacrifice.  Today, has me grasping it a little more,
and I 
just wanted to say thanks for the sacrifice you made
many 
years ago, far away from home, for so many of us.

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9. DMZ Veterans Resources
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Be sure to review the pages and contact information:

a. http://www.koreanwar.org/html/dmz_war.html
   The Forgotten DMZ by Van Jenerette

b. http://www.koreanwar.org/html/dmzvets.htm
   Message Center and links - 1953 thru today 

c. http://kdvamerica.org/
   KDVA - Korea Defense Veterans Alliance

d. http://www.dmzforum.org/
   DMZ Forum Preservation of DMZ Ecosystems

e.
http://www.koreanwar.org/html/history_and_reference.html

   under category; DMZ

f. DMZ Veterans Association Contact & Newsletter

David Benbow
Benbow and Phillips
PO Drawer 432
Statesville, NC 28687-0432

PH: 704 871-9000
EMAIL: david@statesvillelaw.com

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10. I Remember Korea Bumper Stickers - Membership
Drive
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their
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Thanks to all of you for helping make the Korean War
Project
successful.

Regards,

Hal and Ted Barker
hbarker@kwp.org tbarker@kwp.org

Korean War Project



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