Letters To The Lost

Letters To The Lost - Korea

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Each one of you has someone you lost in Korea.

You are a veteran who lost a friend you can't forget. Write him a letter and tell him how you have lived your life. Tell him about your successes and your failures like you would tell him if he had lived and you were sharing a sunset in peace on a lake in Minnesota.

You are a wife who lost her husband. Write him a letter and tell him what happened to you. And how you have lived your life.

You are a son or daughter who never met your father. Write him and tell him how you have lived your life without him.

You are a brother or sister who can't forget your loss. Tell him about how you feel today.

You are a grandchild who only knows your grandfather from pictures on the mantel. Tell him how are today.

You are a son or a daughter or a husband or family of a woman who died. Tell her about your life and what happened to you.

Make this a Veterans Day like no other in our history.

Write a Letter To The Lost.

Send your letter to:

tbarker@kwp.org or

Korean War Project
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190


Include your telephone number where we can contact you and your email address.

We will publish every letter on the Korean War Project.

Please help us to Remember.

Hal Barker

Founder - Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.

P.S. This was inspired by the one of the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan" at the Normandy Cemetery, and a small booklet called "Love Songs To Our Guys, Precious Memories From Loving Wives" by Dorothy Rothenberg, wife of Chuck Rothenberg, 23rd Infantry Regiment Association, Korean War Branch.

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Mr. Dennis E. Skorheim
Park River, ND

October 30, 2006

Dear Clyde Bearstail,

You were in front of me June 8th 1951 when a round came in and took you from us, a day I have never forgotten. I am so glad you told me you were from Newtown North Dakota, so that I could one day find a part of your family.

After 47 years I finally met your daughter Gwen and her family. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon and so many of your family were there. Your Native American family are great people with so much respect for veterans.

I met your daughter Kathy in California a couple years later, you have two wonderful daughters. Kathy, who was not born when you died. Now you have grandchildren and great grandchildren.

My life has been good. I have 6 children, 17 grand children and 6 great grandchildren.

My first wife died from cancer in 1989. I was lucky enough to get married again in 1993.

Life has been good for me but I shall never forget each of you who didn't come home.

I fly the flag each day to honor each of you, I shall never forget you.

God Bless You,

Dennis Skorheim



Donald B. Geddes Sonoma, CA

Dear Cliff,

Since I last saw you in Udam-ni North Korea I have accomplished many of the things you could not since they put your body to rest in Hagaru.

After discharge I met and married a beautiful young lady and we had seven wonderful children, who to date have given us 22 Grandchildren and 7 Great Grandchildren. A great and wonderful posterity. When I look at them, I sometimes think of you being denied these blessings.

Soon after discharge I entered the civilian work force, and not having completed high school began cleaning toilets for a large oil company. The dream of every Marine. To be "head man". I began night school under the G.I. Bill and eventually graduated with a B.A. in art education. Finding a position in a hight school I anchored myself there for 29 years before retiring.

I and my wife and family have had many wonderful experience.

Living in Mexico for one year while working on a Masters Degree, and later after the children left the nest to China for one year (that's right, CHINA) to teach English. I met one Korean veteran there who could have been the one that shot us both.

I have since come to the realization that in spite of the wars and inhumanity men and nations inflict on each other, there is a God who grieves over what we do to each other. But He rarely intervenes because He has given us all "free choice" and all will be accountable for there actions.All who are, or have been responsible for the carnage and lost lives will get their reward. I will, as we all must, join you on the other side of that veil called death in a different and glorious eternal relationship. Save a place for me.

Semper Fidelis Don