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Children at play south of Seoul

Return To Heartbreak
Ridge

A Journey Into The Past

By Hal Barker

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Prayer For Peace. Lunar New Year 1989, Paltung Reservoir.
 

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Chipyongni rice wine factory. Once served as an aid station during the battle in February, 1951.
 

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Boats at Paltung Reservoir, Lunar New Year 1989.
 

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Child playing south of Seoul.
 

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Freedom Is Not Free cut into stone at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, July 1995.
 

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Temple high above Seoul.
 

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Pantung Ho Reservior. Lunar New Year, 1989.
 

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Marines at the Korean War Veterans Memorial Dedication.
 

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Temple woodwork and painting in Seoul.
 

 

Thailand Contingent to the Korean War Veterans Memorial Dedication, Wasington, D.C., 1995


Photos Below: Ministry of Defense, ROK, Tom Ryan, USFK 1989.
 

 

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Hal Barker at the Punchbowl, February 1989.
 

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Hal at Lotte World in Seoul.
 

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Hal in Chaun-ni, near Hill 1051. Site of the May Massacre in 1951.

Go To Chapter One

Return To Heartbreak Ridge is the story of a sons' search for his fathers' past, and a series of letters received from Korean War Veteran SFC Seymour "Hoppy" Harris, a gunner with Company H, 23d Infantry Regiment, 1951.

The story of a war in Korea begins at Chip-yong-ni, February 13, 1951, and ends at Heartbreak Ridge in October, 1951. But the end of war for Harris is only the beginning of a permanent nightmare of war. The story  explores a forgotten war.

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Bob Hammond at the Korean War Veterans Memorial. Sole survivor of 7 man squad east of Chosin Reservoir.
 

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Captain Clark at Outpost Ouelette overlooking Panmunjom, 1989.
 

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Burial Markers at the Paltung Reservoir.
 

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At Prayer at the Paltung Reservoir 1989.
 

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Children Playing South of Seoul.
 

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Market on the way to Chipyongni.
 

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Pastoral setting south of Seoul.

 
 

Photos taken by Hal Barker, in Korea, Hawaii, and the Dedication of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

 

"I gave up photography in 1970, and almost never touched a camera until I went to South Korea in 1989."

"The trip in 1989 was quite an experience. A real adventure in the true sense."

"It was the first time I had any serious interest in taking photographs again."

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