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Newsletter - March 11, 2003Member and Sponsor Last Name Search
Table of Contents
1. March 11, 2003 Pledge Drive - 8th Anniversary Online
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2. This Mailing List - Newsletter
3. Join or Leave the Mail List - Subscribe | Unsubscribe
4. Bookstore
5. Looking For - Examples
6. DUKW Preservation group
7. Reunions
8. Korean War Veterans Memorial - Commemoration July 25-27
9. BKVA - British Korean War Veterans Website
10. Johnson's List - March 28th - History Channel
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1. March 11, 2003 Pledge Drive - 8th Anniversary Online
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From: Hal Barker - Founder and Director
Today marks the second online Pledge Drive. The first drive
commenced August 28th, 2002 with great success.
Our present goal:
We wish to encourage all persons or groups who have not
previously donated to our nonprofit (IRS 501c3) website to
do so now. Spread the word!
See: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/membership.html
Background:
The Korean War Project exists only because of the voluntary
donations/memberships by our website visitors.
Donations have been and will continue to be Voluntary! The
Korean War Project is Free To All Visitors, But Voluntary
Donations Keep Us Online.
Our Sponsor/Members:
Veterans, Veteran Groups, family members, friends, former
unit members, students and historians.
Website Visitor Facts:
The average number of total site "hits" per month is 1.4
million. The average number of visitors is 58,000 per month.
AOL is generally the top origination point. Google is the
main Search Tool.
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We do not receive any government or foundation funding.
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The KWP has required more of our personal time on the
console each year of existence. The past year required more
time than ever due to the persistent virus, spam and hacking
attacks on the system. The KWP is a very complex operation
involving scores of emails, dozens of phone calls, and
letters each day.
Thank you for financial help you can provide.
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2. This Mailing List - Newsletter
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We try to send twice a month to those of you who have
made email inquiry via our forms on the site. This is our
most efficient way to attempt to stay in contact.
The Mail List is also our way to get current topics out as
fast as possible. Not all topics will interest all persons.
Archives can be found at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_archive.html
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3. Join or Leave the Mail List - Subscribe | Unsubscribe
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Send Ted an email with Subscribe or Unsubscribe in
the subject. Be sure to include name and full email address.
If you wish to have any or all of your messages deleted
from the site, you must email Ted with instructions and
areas of the site affected eg: Looking For, BBS,
Remembrance.
Note: if you received this from us directly, you are already
subscribed. Consider forwarding the Newsletter to your
friends. Many people take copies to veteran meetings.
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4. Bookstore
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USS Pine Island "To Princess from Krug"
by Connie Krueger
My name is Constance (Connie) Krueger. I am the seventy-two
year widow of Dale A. Krueger, who served on the USS PINE
ISLAND as a DKSN in the 1950-51, first year of the Korean
War.
I have written a book of letters and pictures, published in
November of 2002. The name of the book is "To Princess from
Krug" published by 1st Books Library.
The book has over three hundred pictures, taken on a Baby
Brownie camera and is composed of letters written
almost daily to me, detailing that first voyage. My husband
interrupted his third year of college to enlist in the
U.S.Navy when the Korean War began.
He took his boot training at USNTC in San Diego and was one
of the seventy-two boot graduates taken to the waiting ship
in San Diego harbor directly from camp.
One of the reasons for his daily letters to me was to
insure that I would continue to wait for him. We were to be
married on the boot leave that he expected to receive, but
didn't. Because his letters were so interesting and because
they were so descriptive of their first year trip
during the beginning of the war I have published this book
of pictures and letters.
The pictures and letters include life board the ship and the
ports: Yokosuko, Tokyo, Iwakuni in Japan. Naha, Buckners
Bay, Sangley Point, Manila, Formosan Straits, Pescadores
Islands, Hong Kong.
The book can be previewed on the internet at:
https://www.toprincessfrom.com
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5. Looking For - Examples
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We started this section two weeks after the February 15th
1995 debut. After announcing to the Internet on USENET and
BBS - Fidonet, email flooded our inbox.
For the first 3.5 years, Ted manually typed in all the
inquiries or copied from the form entries. Most unit pages
still have many of those early entries.
Here is a success story from one of those messages:
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Waterkamp
To: <hbarker@kwp.org>; <tbarker@kwp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:12 AM
Subject: Looking for!!!
Hi guys,
Just want you to know that after posting a name on your
website about 6 years ago, I received a phone call yesterday
from the person I have been trying to locate. His son
spotted his dad's name on your web site and called his dad
with the information. Thank you so much.
Good luck. Gary and Betty Waterkamp
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See: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/looking_for.html
Note: Consider writing letters to Unit Reunion Associations
listed on our site or from our Reference and Reunion links.
Most of those groups have "Looking For" sections.
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6. DUKW Preservation group
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WWII and Korean War Vets will remember the ungainly little
craft. Hal and I used to ride around in one that belonged
to our neighbors in Newport Beach.
From:Arthur W. Wells
Email:
dolart@aol.com
Mr. Barker,
As you no doubt know, DUKWs were also used in Korea and, as
in WWII, did a yeoman job there too. I wonder whether I can
impose on you to help publicize the need as follows:
HELP NEEDED! Due to deployment of Active Duty Marines,
volunteers living near Camp Pendleton, CA are needed to help
with on-going DUKW restoration work. Help preserve this
historical sea-going vehicle that played such an important
part in Marine WWII and Korean War battle.
Please contact:
MSgt. J. C. King at: kingjc@pendleton.usmc.mil
Art's DUKW link:
https://www.hometown.aol.com/dolart/dolart.htm
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7. Reunions
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Here are a couple examples of new Reunion posts. Feel free
to send us your reunion information. Use the Add Reunion
link at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_project_data.html
View Reunions on unit pages and at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/reunions.html
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USS Boxer Reunion
CONTACT: Ed Weddle
EMAIL: n/a
TELEPHONE: 509-773-4839
REUNION_URL: https://www.ussboxer.com/Reunions.htm
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
Airport Doubletree Hotel
Registration & Reservations 800-222-8733
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VP-1 Reunion
Posted by: Eugene Hilvers
REUNION DATES: Sept 3 thru 7
CONTACT: Homer Hawkins
CONTACT EMAIL: n/a
TELEPHONE: 1-405-944-5839
LOCATION: Whidbey Island, WA Coachman Inn, Oak Harbor, WA
Ph# 1-800-635-0043
VP-1 reunion rates Transportation from SEATAC to Oak
Harbor is $52 round trip for military, retirees, dependents
and seniors. On the BellAire Airporter Shuttle.
There also a Navy Lodge at the Seaplane base
DESCRIPTION: Golfing, sight seeing, dinner dance There
will be an hospitality room set up in the Coachman Inn.
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ASCOM CITY 1954-70 Reunion
Posted by: JOE KENICK JR
REUNION DATES: MAY 18-20 2003
CONTACT: Jim Foley
CONTACT EMAIL: blmoct@aol.com
TELEPHONE: 570 489 7474
LOCATION: Pocono Manor Resort & Spa
Pocono Manor, PA 18349
Phone 800 233 8150
Contact John McHale
Jim Foley
224 Sanderson Ave
Olyphant PA 18447
DESCRIPTION: 74th Ord, 181 Sig, 55 Sig, 44th Engr, 121 Evac
Hosp, 55th QM 8th AAC, 8057th Rep. Dep. Etc.
Any ASCOM outfit from the truce forward.
ROK speakers.| Photo and story sharing time etc.
INFO on the Korean Defense Service Medal
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G/3/1 USMC Reunion
From: J. Robert "Bob" Camarillo camarilloj@vcss.k12.ca.us
Would you please include this reunion announcement in your
publication.
G/3/1 KOREA (1950 to 1953) will hold its annual reunion in
Washington D.C. from September 10 to 14. Please contact J.
Camarillo, 19 Stanislaus Ave., Ventura, CA 93004-1147,
camarilloj@vcss.k12.ca.us.
The reunion will be held at the Double Tree Hotel Crystal
City, Arlington, VA across the Potomac from the Pentagon.
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8. Korean War Veterans Memorial - Commemoration July 25-27
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WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 -- America will honor Korean War
Veterans July 25- 27 in a national salute here that includes
a ceremony at the Korean War Veterans Memorial and a musical
program at the MCI Center.
On July 27, 50 years ago, the United States and 21 other
U.N. member nations signed an armistice that ended three
years of fighting with communist forces and ended the Korean
War. After returning home, many service members never talked
about their experiences. The world seemed to forget the war
happened, or at least, did not realize the impact it had on
communist aggression.
The Department of Defense has been sponsoring events
nationwide to honor and thank Korean War veterans and family
members for their sacrifice and service to their country.
The DoD 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration
Committee kicked off their events with a ceremony at the
Korean War Veterans Memorial June 25, 2000, marking the 50th
anniversary of the day North Korean military forces crossed
the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea.
Currently scheduled events include a wreath-laying and
memorial ceremony at 10 a.m. July 26 at the Tomb of the
Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. At
4:30 that afternoon, the National Salute to Korean War
Veterans will be held at the MCI Center in Washington. A
memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. July 27 at the
Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall.
The MCI Center event will include musical performances by
military and celebrity artists, guest speakers and a parade
of unit colors from all five branches of the U.S. military
and the 21 other nations that participated under the U.N.
Command during the war. This parade of colors will mark the
first time all the colors of the major units from
the Korean War have been brought together, event planners
said.
Since the commemoration began in 2000, the committee has
sponsored more than 100 events in every region of the United
States. Hundreds of smaller, local events have been
sponsored by the commemoration partners, which include more
than 10,000 cities, states, schools, businesses and
other organizations nationwide, committee officials said.
"The support the people of this country have provided us to
thank and honor Korean War veterans has been tremendous,"
said retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Nels Running, executive
director of the commemoration committee. "This three- day
event in Washington, D.C., will be a great opportunity for
the nation to take the time to recognize the 1.8 million
Korean War veterans who stopped communist aggression in its
tracks and preserved the freedom of the Republic of South
Korea."
All Korean War veterans, family members, next of kin and the
public are invited to attend the events. Below are just two
events in March leading up to the July commemoration.
There will be a regional Joint Service Commemoration at 2
p.m. March 8 at La Villita Assembly Hall in San Antonio,
Texas. During this event, the consul of the Republic of
Korea from Houston will award his country's Korean War
Service Medal to American Korean War veterans
representing each of the five U.S. military services.
The Korean service medals will be presented in the Great
Lakes Joint Service Commemoration at 10 a.m. March 22 at
Macomb Sports Expo Center in Warren, Mich. During this
event. Canadian veterans will also attend and be honored at
this event.
Korean War veterans will be special guests of Maj. Gen.
James T. Jackson, commanding general of the U.S. Army
Military District of Washington, at the Twilight Tattoo at 7
p.m. June 25 at the Ellipse in Washington. A Korean War
veteran will be the parade reviewing official at the event.
For more information about the Korean War or any of the
coming events, call the commemoration committee toll-free at
1-866-KOREA50 or visit the official department Web site
https://www.korea50.mil
(From a DoD 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration
Committee news release.)
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9. BKVA - British Korean War Veterans Website
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Please visit the BKVA at: https://www.bkva.co.uk/
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10. Johnson's List - March 28th - History Channel
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Johnnie Johnson, Korean POW Survivor and member of the
"Tiger Survivors" was featured in Readers Digest, December
of 1996.
Mr. Gruppers' film is showing again. Check your listings!
From: Jonathan Grupper Productions
Just got word that "Johnson's List" will be rebroadcast on
the History Channel series "This Week in History" on Friday,
March 28th, between 8 and 9PM EST, (check local listings).
Jonathan Grupper Productions
Tiger link:
https://www.tigersurvivors.org
Johnson's List:
https://www.koreanwar.org/tiger/johnson.htm
Thanks to all who have helped make the Korean War Project
a success.
Hal and Ted Barker
Korean War Project
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