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Korean War Project Newsletter July 27 2005
Table of Contents
1. Dedication
2. Ballet: Korean War Veterans Memorial Dance Project
3. Navy ATF/ATA website
4. Tennessee Korean War Memorial Project Drive
5. Annual Korean War Veterans Reunion - Dick Gallmeyer
6. 9th Infantry Rgt (Manchu's) Liscum Bowl Restoration at 2ID Museum
7. H/3/1 Looking For former unit members
8. Bookstore
9. Korean Student Association - TAMU Texas A&M University - scholarship
10. DMZ/Korea Veterans Reunion - August 5th, 2005
11. Alaska Air Command during the Korean War (6/50 - 7/54) - Recognition
12. Reunions, finding or posting
13. Looking For: 552nd Military Police Company
14. Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act
15. Veterans History Project, Library of Congress - Indiana
16. Finding the Families, Albuquerque, NM - news article
17. Membership, Pledge Drive
18. This Mailing List Subscribe | Unsubscribe
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1. Dedication
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This newsletter is dedicated to Wallace (Wally) Woods, 23rd Infantry Rgt, 2ID - Korea.
Wally has passed away after decades of service to his fellow 2nd ID men and their wives.
He was one of Hal's friends from the Korean War Branch reunion Association. ---Age 76 of Nashville, died suddenly of a heart attack Saturday, May 21, 2005 at his residence following an extended illness. Survived by his
wife of 52 years, Virginia Woods; his sister-in-law Janette Black; 3 sons, Walter (Karen) Woods of Nashville, TN; Gregory (Valerie) Woods of Orlando, FL, and Peter (Jennifer) Woods of Overland Park, KS; and 5 grandchildren.
Wally was the Secretary-Treasurer of the National 23rd Infantry Regiment, Korean War Branch,for 11 years. He will be missed by many, many friends.
The funeral was May 29th at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, 917
Pond Road, Loudon, Tennessee.
We pause to Remember all of our friends who have joined the eternal Honor Roll as well as a good friend in Wallace (Wally) Woods.
Hal and Ted Barker
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2. Ballet: Korean War Veterans Memorial Dance Project
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Two C/1/1 men, Norm Callahan and Jim
Nicholson alerted the KWP to a staged dance
ensemble that performed a tribute to Korean War Veterans at Sam Houston State University in Texas.
Ms. Kista Tucker, Professor, is the coordinator for the dance work. Norm and
Jim have asked that people interested in having the dance staged in their area contact Ms. Tucker and the staff of SHSU.
Words of support or donations for the project can go to:
Ms. Kista Tucker
C/O Dance Program
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341
Her email: dnc_kkt@shsu.edu
PH: 936-294-3525
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3. Navy ATF/ATA website
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Roger
Dana reminds all former crew of these ships to visit the NAFTS website to view data and photos of ships they served upon.
See:
https://www.NAFTS.com
Rodger Dana, President NAFTS at: Lodger@Adelphia.net
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4. Tennessee Korean War Memorial Project Drive
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The following came in from George King and he is trying to compile a listing of folks interested in helping to fund a Korean War Veterans Memorial in Tennessee.
To: Ted Barker
From: George King, (E/1/1 USMC - Korea - 1951-1952) Ted, I need your help in compiling a mailing list of Korean vets in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. We are well on the way to raising
the funds for a Memorial Monument honoring the 38,500 War dead and those who answered the call to active duty from the Memphis area. ( Our cost - $ 97,500 - partially subscribed to.)
We are locating in Memphis' Overton Park
Veteran's Plaza, the location of statues and monuments to the WWI , WWII and Vietnam. Here we have perpetual care and maintenance.
We have a very distinctive architectural design. There is no civic funding, except for
the
gift of the Monument location. Our research shows NO monument specifically dedicated to the Korean War Veterans in Tennessee.
We bought a mailing list from a commercial company which was supposed to be exclusively
for Korean War Vets. We mailed out 2,263 letters with little results as the mailing list went to general population, not specifically Korean War Vets as requested.
Can you help us. - Or direct me to a location where we can
obtain a list of Korean War Vets ?
I am committed to have this monument in honor of those men we lost in Korea. We are a proud lot !!
George King
Email: georgeking68@hotmail.com
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5. Annual Korean War Veterans Reunion - Dick Gallmeyer
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Once again our long term pen pal, Dick Gallmeyer is putting on his reunion from his long list of veteran
contacts.
This year, the Ramada Express in Laughlin, NV, is the location from Oct 2nd - 6th, 2005.
Reunion phone at Ramada: 800-243-6846
Dick Gallmeyer
Korean War Veterans Reunion, Inc.
P.O. Box 8946
Virginia Beach, VA
PH: 800-523-4715
See All Reunions posted to the KWP:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/reunions.html
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6. 9th Infantry Rgt (Manchu's) Liscum Bowl Restoration at 2ID Museum
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From William McCool at: mccoollaw@pocketinet.com
Any former Manchu soldiers (9th Inf Reg) and many other 2nd Inf Div soldiers will be interested in
seeing this story on the restoration of the Liscum Bowl, which has been in the 2nd Inf museum for many decades. Those of us who saw it never realized that it is one of the largest silver art objects ever made, making it an
extremely important historical piece in its own right. Having done volunteer work at the Division museum during my tour of duty, I had the privilege of polishing it once.
https://www.creativemetalworks.com/p332.html
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7. H/3/1 Looking For former unit members
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From Glenn Kinkel, former Marine:
Hi Ted
Would
you list the follow former Marines our Association is looking for in your next Newsletter?
Capt. James Burnett
Sgt. Robert Lewis
Sgt Joe Jettery
Sgt James Gregg
These Marines were with H-3-1 in Korea and are wanted to become members
to the H-3-1 Association.
Do contact one or all of the following
Chuck Lyman lyman@marnet.com
Glenn Kinkel
leknik@sti.net
Jack Dedrick JFDEDRICK@aol.com
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8. Bookstore
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Visit our Bookstore section of the
site where you can browse titles of important books or video's that have been presented to the public by our site visitors.
Link: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/bookstore.html
Tip: click any of the titles to get the details and cover page of the book.
===a.===
Fire For Effect!
Artillery Forward Observer in Korea
by Anthony J. (Tony) Sobieski
Forward by Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. USA, former Commandant of the Army War College.
Major
General Robert Scales: "Now at last Tony Sobieski has frozen in amber a moment in history long forgotten. Generations of gunners will look to this work to understand their pedigree. And I will refer to it time and again
as I try to relive my own time as a member of that exclusive club of Forward Observers in combat."
Fire For Effect! is more than just a book about the Korean War. It is the untold history of
the Korean War Artillery
Forward Observer, told by the men themselves. With over 100
interviews of Forward Observers from all across the front lines, the grittiness and reality of what these servicemen went through in the 'Forgotten War' is
brought to life once again so that their deeds while fighting in the wasteland known as 'Korea' may be remembered for future generations.
Cost: $19.95 Soft cover plus shipping
AuthorHouse Publishers
1663 Liberty Place, Ste 200
Bloomington, IN 47403
PH: 888-280-7715
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https://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~29980.aspx
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A Death March and Nightmare
by Donald E. Donner
A look backward at
Don's personal experiences as a POW during the Korean War. Don was also one of the Tiger Survivor group of POW's, captured early in the war.
This is a on demand printed book and done by Trafford Publishing.
https://www.trafford.com
Sales: sales@trafford.com
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As I Recall
A Marine's Personal Story
by George H. Tsegeletos
This book
is a series of short stories recalling personal experiences of the author when a
young Marine serving in Korea. The author joined the Corps as a 17 year old. Later, in
the frozen north of Korea, he endured the Chosin Reservoir Campaign.
ISBN: 1-4107-5616-5
Published by: 1st Books Library
Bloomington, , Indiana
George Tsegeletos
20662 Pueblo Avenue
Sonoma, CA 95476-
Email: tsegeletos@vom.com
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Patton's Bulldog
The Life and Service of General Walton H. Walker
by Wilson A. Heefner
Forward by Martin Blumenson
ISBN: 1-57249-283-x
Hardcover Price : $29.95 plus shipping
Published by:
White Mane Books
Beidel Printing House, Inc.
63 West Burd St
Shippensburg, PA 17257
348 pages chocked full of the details of "Johnnie Walker's" carrer WWII - through his death in Korea late in the winter of 1950.
Col
Heefner is a distinguished retired Army officer who is a graduate of the Army War College as well as the US Army Command and General Staff College.
Wilson Heefner w.heefner@comcast.net
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Change of Station
The Great Depression, World War II, Korea, Cuba, El Salvador
by Jack Lukas
US Army Retired MSGT, A Co 15th Inf Rgt 3ID Korea 1950-51
Jack served from 1943 - 1966 in the US Army. He retired after 23 years active service. The book is a chronological series of
short stories of his military experiences. Jack considers himself to be a 'non-writer' and wishes his legacy to be one to show veterans how to leave a record of their service for others to experience.
Published by River City Press, Inc.
Jack Lukas
3539 Cesery Blvd
Jacksonville, FL 32277
PH: 904-744-1252
Email: Jack Lukas llukas@bellsouth.net
To buy:
https://www.booksbuyjack.com
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BOSWELL: A Sailor Aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) 1944-1945.
A newly published book, thirteen years in the making,
collecting the cartoons of Robert Kennealy who served aboard the USS Missouri during World War II. Over 160 cartoons featuring Boswell, a simple sailor who made his own rules, frustrated his petty officers and
the officers with his wry humor and fine tuned the morale of his shipmates. The cartoons were eventually carried by the
ship's newspaper, The Missourian, much to the delight of everyone aboard. Now after 60 years, this
collection has been put together after exhaustive research and rejuvenation.
The coffee table sized book (81/2 x 11) is available direct from the publisher at pre-release publisher prices. This book is a
sure winner, not only for battleship sailors, but for any sailor who ever sailed aboard a US Navy ship.
$20.00 plus $3.85 Priority Mail.
Contact Herb Fahr at (516) 931-1769
email _MoBB63Mo@aol.com_
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Note: for all the books listed on the Korean War Project:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/bookstore.html
Tip: to see all the reviews and book covers, simply click the blue text of a title.
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9. Korean Student Association - TAMU Texas A&M University - scholarship
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2005 Korean War Scholarship
Korean Student Association at Texas A&M University
For commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Korean War in 2003, Korean Student Association (KSA) at Texas A&M University made the Korean War
Scholarship. The Korean War Scholarship is awarded to provide financial assistance to the children or grandchildren of veterans who took part in the Korean War in early 1950s. This scholarship will allow the Korean
community at Texas A&M University to make a positive contribution while at the same time expressing gratitude to the families that defended our homeland. This year, the scholarship will be awarded to three
students or more on July 4th
every year.The executive committee of KSA has the responsibility of making the final choice based on applications. The award consists of scholarship of $500 for each three
applicants given by the KSA at Texas A&M University. Applicants must meet the following eligibility:
1. Application Eligibility
U.S. citizens in College Station / Bryan or other area in Texas.
High school seniors or above
Descendents of the veterans of Korean War
2. Deadlines
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 (??)
3. How to apply? Complete the application form and send it to the address below
with the copy of the document proving you are the descendent of the Korean War veteran. (e-mail to korea@tamu.edu to get the application form and send the completed form to the following address)
Jae Young Park
Korean Student Association,
1501 Harvey Rd. #820
College Station, TX 77840
President
Korean Student Association at TAMU
Graduate Assistant
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts
211C Blocker Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, 77843-4227 USA
Tel: (Office) 1-979-845-3451 ext.42
(Home) 1-979-575-9975
Fax: 1-979-862-2292
Email:
saram@tamu.edu
skku@hotmail.com
https://www.cyworld.com/aggie04
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10. DMZ/Korea Veterans Reunion - August 5th, 2005
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Jennifer at David Benbow's office and Barbara Wright send this notice:
The annual reunion usually held in North Carolina will be at Pendleton, Oregon from August 5th - 7th at the Wild Horse Casino Resort.
Contact: Barbara Wright
Email: ewagon@earthlink.net
Phone: 541-276-3532
Reservations: 800-654-9453
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11. Alaska Air Command during the Korean War (6/50 - 7/54) - Recognition
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For several months Dick Aronson and I have batted email back and forth about his desire to get a more complete recognition for those who served during the war years
while in Alaska.
Much of our key Early Warning and Strategic Defense systems were located in that cold clime and most of us who recall the Cold War years, well remember the urgency to address the security of the
northern route for missile and aircraft assault.
Give Dick your thoughts and assistance. If you served in the AAC or ADF, give him a shout.
From Dick:
Once again-- I have been trying to get someone in congress
or a KW organization to revisit the regulations concerning the awarding the KW ribbon for those who served in the Alaska Air Command during the KW (6/50 - 7/54). I have extensive research that supports my position.
Dick Aronson Marbrinic@aol.com
USAF - 1952-55.
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12. Reunions, finding or posting
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Do post your association reunions on our site for others to see.
Link: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/reunions.html
Here is an example of a search for a reunion. We do not have it listed on the site.
I was on the USS Pickaway APA 222 during Korean War. I heard they are having a reunion in San Diego this Fall. Do you know where I can
learn anything about it?
Thanks!
John Bonham, D.D.S. drjlb35@hotmail.com
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24th Infantry Division Reunion - September 21st - 24th 2005
Current and former members are encouraged to attend.
Holiday Inn Philadelphia Historic
District Hotel, 400 Arch Street, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
For further Information contact: Wes Morrison - Association President and Reunion Coordinator,
at 831-883-2156, email:
wesm8@aol.com,
or
Sam Slater, Reunion Chairman, at 215-549-6627, email: ssams104@aol.com.
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Revisit by Marines sought:
Some of us Marine vets are trying to arrange a visit
to Korea in late 05 or 06. It would be in the vicinity
of Panmumjom to Boulder City and the Hook. As of now
it is just getting started and we are looking for
interested vets of any service.Any help you can give
us would be appreciated. For now all we are looking
for is how many people would even be interested.
Take care,
Ron Remily rmremily@yahoo.com
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13. Looking For: 552nd Military Police Company
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Again, we are featuring an example of inquiries for our Looking For section of the website.Be sure to
visit that area, do note the changes in leaving messages to shield email addresses. Note that you will also have to use the unit search block to pull up units of interest. Simply key into the small search block the
unit number or name and hit "Search". Alternately, click
the grouping category just below.
Link:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/looking_for.html
From:
K2S2ENTERPRISES@aol.com
To: <tbarker@kwp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005
Have emailed you in the past. Would it be possible to high light my request
for information regarding the 552nd Military Police Company which was in
Korean War?
I have a good history of the unit during their WW2 activities but have come
up almost empty handed regarding the unit during Korean War. The unit is
still on active duty in Korea and just won the award as the best MP Company.
They are also past recipients of the best MP Company in the US Army on two
occasions. A great unit with a great and honorable history.
We just had a reunion of the Vietnam Veterans from the unit in Branson,
Missouri. It was a very emotional meeting and we would love to include those
from the Korean War timeframe. We will be having another reunion in St. Louis
next year. Time not yet determined.
If in a couple of your newsletter you could highlight our unit with a
specific request for information and hopefully pictures of the unit during the
performance of their mission during the Korean War that would be greatly
appreciated.
Many thanks,
Dave Kennedy
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14. Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act
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Shorty (Tiger) Estabrook of the Tiger Survivors Association has written before about the proposed legislation to more fully honor our POW's who died while in POW status.
Will you join Shorty and all the Former POW's
and call your Senators and US. Representatives to support this fine initiative?
From Shorty tigersurvivors@comcast.net
My bill HB 2369 (new number) has been introduced into the House on 16 May and we now need the widest dissemination possible. We need the maximum effort to contact our reps to
get them to co sponsor this non partisan bill. Contacting Senators is vital to as we will need this introduced into the Senate ASAP. This bill will give closure to the Next of Kin of those who died while a POW who were
never awarded the Purple Heart. I would appreciate it if you could send this out to your membership and E-Mail partners.
Thanks
Shorty the Tiger
Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act (Introduced in House)
HR 2369 IH
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2369
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the Purple Heart to be awarded to prisoners of war who die in captivity under circumstances not otherwise
establishing eligibility for the Purple Heart. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 16, 2005
Mr. FILNER (for himself and Mr. MCNULTY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed
Services
A BILL
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the Purple Heart to be awarded to prisoners of war who die in captivity under circumstances not otherwise establishing eligibility for the Purple
Heart. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act'.
SEC. 2. AWARD OF PURPLE HEART FOR PRISONERS OF WAR WHO DIE IN CAPTIVITY.
(a) Persons not Otherwise Eligible for the Purple Heart- Chapter 57 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
`Sec. 1135. Purple Heart: members who die while prisoners of war that are not otherwise eligible under the circumstances causing death
`(a) For purposes of the award of the Purple Heart, the Secretary concerned shall
treat a member of the armed forces described in subsection (b) in the same manner as a member who is killed or wounded in action as the result of an act of an enemy of the United States.
`(b) A member described in this
subsection is a member who dies in captivity under circumstances establishing eligibility for the prisoner-of-war medal under section 1128 of this title but not under circumstances establishing eligibility for the Purple Heart.
`(c) This section applies to members of the armed forces who die on or after December 7, 1941. In the case of a member who dies as described in subsection (b) on or after December 7, 1941, and before the date of the enactment
of this section, the Secretary concerned shall award the Purple Heart under subsection (a) in each case which is known to the Secretary before the date of the enactment of this section or for which an application is
made to the Secretary in such manner as the Secretary requires.'.
(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
1135. Purple
Heart: members who die while prisoners of war that are not otherwise eligible under the
circumstances causing death.'.
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15. Veterans History Project, Library of Congress - Indiana
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The Library of Congress - LOC has been doing an outreach program for a couple of years now. The
following message is from one of our Indiana based vets, John Quinn.
Help support the Library of Congress and the Congressional offices for each state to garner as much history as possible.
There is a program going
on in various states, Indiana in particular, to make video and audio recordings of veterans' service experiences. Since many older vets are dying rapidly the organizers of the project want to get their histories
on record ASAP. They need story tellers so history won't get lost.
Any of the vets who have watched "History Channel" and seen shows like "Mail Call" and the story of Iwo Jima battles knows how
interesting it is to hear the surviving Marines tell it like it was. Our descendants must remember what it costs to defend freedom for the U.S.A.
Veterans of all service in all wars are invited to participate in this
documentary program and their stories will be forwarded to The Library of Congress for the use of historians and other interested parties.
Here, in Indiana, The Veterans History Project is operating through U.S. Senator
Richard G. Lugar's office with the help of various local libraries and other volunteer interviewers.
Those Indiana veterans who would like to participate in this valuable effort may register with Name, address and
phone number at vetproject@lugar.senate.gov_
or 1180 Market Tower, 10 W.Market
St, Indianapolis, IN 46204. Phone is 317 226 5555.
Hope this information is helpful to our Korean War veterans, of which I am one (Sep '50 to Mar '52 with the U.S.Air Force
AC&W Sqdns.)
Thank you for all your good work.
John M. Quinn
Lebanon, IN
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16. Finding the Families, Albuquerque, NM - news article
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Hal and I would like to thank Jim Cooper of Albuquerque for calling his paper, The Albuquerque Journal to ask that they do an article on an MIA from Clovis.
A
front page article was run on July 25th that featured 27 MIA from Korea from New Mexico for whom a full accounting has not been accomplished.
Since the article ran, the phone at the Korean War Project has buzzed continually.
Family
and friends have called to inquire and to obtain contact information for the Department of Defense Casualty Offices.
In the past hundreds, if not thousands of our newsletter recipients have alerted their local
media to do similar stories with very good results. Why not do so again?
By Thursday our MIA section will be updated with the latest results for DNA samples provided or needed. A big Thank You to all volunteers who take part
in assisting the Korean War Project to bridge the gap.
Link:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/finding_the_families.html
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Korean War MIAs Tracked; Project Uses Relatives' DNA
By Miguel Navrot
Journal Staff Writer
Fifty-two years after the Korean War reached its cease-fire, thousands of U.S. service members are still behind enemy lines- missing in action.
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17. Membership
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Consider supporting the mission of the Korean War Project by
donations in the form of Membership/Sponsorship.
See: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/membership.html
Our Pledge Drive is an ongoing process. Many of our previous
donors no longer can assist. We are recruiting from those who
have not participated, so if you can, jump on in, it will be
appreciated.
Donations, memberships are tax deductible, if you use long
form IRS reports. Our EIN: 752695041 501c3
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18. This Mailing List (going to 32,000 + persons)
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We began this newsletter mailing in December of 1998.
This list is a private list for our visitors and members.
A person may join or leave the list at will. It is compiled
from our Guest book and is for public service messages of
general interest to veterans and families.
To join or leave the list: email to: Ted Barker tbarker@kwp.org
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Consider forwarding the Newsletter to your friends. Thanks for being part of the
Korean War Project family.
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