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Korean War Project - 501c3 IRS Non-profit organization
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190
214-320-0342
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Newsletter March 15, 2002
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1. This Mailing List
2. State of the Project, Annual Report - 7 years Online
3. Membership, Pledge Drive
4. Who can join as Member/Sponsors/Donor's?
5. DMZ Veterans Resources
6. Ken Page, Navy Veteran and Advocate - RIP
7. Site Updates - Looking For POW Camps
8. Web Site: Korean War Educator - must visit!
9. House Budget Committee to Decide on Concurrent Receipt
10. Films | Book Reviews | TV
11. Newsletter Archive
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1. This Mailing List (going to 19,000 + persons)
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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 Guestbook and is for public service
messages of general interest to veterans and families.
To join or leave the list click here:
Note: if you received this from us directly, you are already
subscribed. Consider forwarding the Newsletter to your
friends.
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2. State of the Project, Annual Report - 7 Years Online
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The Korean War Project has been online for over 7 years. Over those
7 years, we have provided resources and information to milliions of
visitors from throughout the world.We are online only because of the support of our Members and Sponsors.
The Korean War Project is free to all visitors, but our Members and
Sponsors provide our only means of support.
For many, the Korean War Project provides the only information
available concerning casualties and primary historical documentation.
We now have over 1700 individual unit pages and casuality information
for over 35,000 servicemen and women lost in the Korean War. Our Remembrance section provides families and friends the
opportunity to leave entries of Remembrance on behalf of the Lost in
Korea. To date, almost 10,000 Remembrance entries have been
added to our public database of casualties.For hundreds of families, these Remembrance entries have led to
personal contact with veterans who knew their loved one. For many
these contacts result in the first real information about a loss in 50
years or more. The value of this chance for closure is beyond estimate.
Our Finding the Families DNA initiative has resulted in substantial numbers
of DNA samples provided to the Department of Defense for possible
identification of remains. We are indebted to dozens of geneologists,
researchers, volunteers, and journalists for help in this volunteer effort.
Each service has casualty offices who receive these contacts and
provide additional information on casualties.
Our Unit pages have provided over 50,000 contacts for veterans seeking
old friends and comrades. Some units have hundreds of entries from
veterans, and each day dozens more entries are submitted.
With your support, we will continue our work providing the most
up-to-date information and resources on the Korean War
available anywhere. To understand how important you support is to the Korean War
Project, we receive a Membership or Donation from one visitor in
one thousand.
4. Who can join as Member/Sponsors/Donor's?
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People ask us who can join, and the answer is simple, anyone
interested in our veterans, the Korean War History,
regardless of age and country.
Memberships over the root $15.00 are tax deductible if you
itemize. See your IRS forms for the basics.
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5. DMZ Veterans Resources
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I left out a very good web link for DMZ veterans in the last
issue. Be sure to check out The DMZ MP Association which
honors the Imjin Scouts MP who served along the DMZ
Web link:
www.dmza.org
We added updates to our DMZ Vets Looking For area to include
a section for 2000 forward.
See the last issue of our newsletter for other great links
for persons interested in the DMZ and service in Korea after
the truce of July 27, 1953.
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6. Ken Page, Navy Veteran and Advocate - RIP
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Mr. Ken Page of Troy, NY and Rensselaer County KWVA member,
passed away on February 8th 2002. He battled illness all through
January.
Ken served in the Navy from April of 1951 through March of
1955 on the USS TACONIC (AGC 17).
Ken was a very good friend of mine, a pen pal for several
years. I will miss him and so will all of the hundreds of people that
he assisted over the years.
He was a stalwart for his veteran chapter and his friends and spent
considerable time raising funds for the Korean War Project.
For years, Ken researched the HONOR ROLL at the KIOSK on
the Mall where the database resides to provide a wonderful
link to those young men who did not live through the war.
He found information and photographs of these men to send to
the American Battle Monuments Commission for inclusion in
this KIOSK HONOR ROLL.
This work was done on his personal income and all of us
doing research on the War will be eternally grateful for his
unselfish efforts.
We recently featured a news article on Ken, and his other
email pen pals, Ed, Ray, Sylvia, Art, and Marty, who, every
day work to fill in the blanks for a time and place, long
ago.
The work goes on and so will Ken's memory, so long, my
friend. Ted Barker
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7. Site Updates - Looking For POW Camps
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The Looking For POW Camps section is now interactive. The
update is long overdue. Please visit the area. Review older
messages, contact those persons of interest to you, and by
all means, leave any message you wish.
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/pow.htm
Note:If you notice any message on any of the forums that has
a request for "email-update-needed", that indicates we do
not have a valid email address for a person.
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8. Web Site: Korean War Educator - must visit!
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Lynnita Brown has met many of you for interviews. She spends most of her
time contacting veterans for oral histories that are transcribed, painstakingly.
She has been a friend to the Korean War Project for years now. Her website
is a wealth of hard facts and a must visit.
The inclusion of the work of Martin O'Brien of Augusta, Maine is of keynote
importance. Years of exhaustive work to create a book on Korean casualties
is on the site and I encourage everyone to review his work.
Go to: https://www.koreanwar-educator.org/
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9. House Budget Committee to Decide on Concurrent Receipt
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There is an issue that has been boiling for years now,
military retired pay and VA disability compensation.
Don Tyson asks that persons contact their legislators,
especially if they are on the House Budge Committee.
Do feel free to contact Don directly, he knows much more
than we do about this important issue.
Don G. Tyson dongtyson@earthlink.net
LT/MCPO (SEAL), USN, Ret.
Member
DAV (Life), VFW (Life), USDR,
FRA, TROA
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10. Films | Book Reviews | TV
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Korean Air War: History Alive F86 Sabre-Jet Strike!
Tuesday , March 19 9:00 PM-10:00 PM History Channel
TV Guide: Developed from jet technology captured from the
Germans after WWII, the F-86 approached speeds of Mach 1.
First deployed during the Korean War, the F-86 battled the
Soviet-made MiG-15, achieving a 15-1 kill ratio over the
superior-designed Soviet craft.
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M*A*S*H - two hour show to give tribute to the show and
to veterans from Korea and Vietnam. Airing on FOX in May.
The producers are looking for interviews with Korean War
Veterans who served in MASH and other Medical units.
Contact:
Korelan Cone
Rocket Science Laboratories
3141 Cahuenga Blvd, West
Los Angeles, CA 90068
PH: (323) 436-2347
Fax: (323) 436-2323
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The Long, Long Ago Oral History Project
Suva Intermediate School in Bell Gardens, CA.
Details: We research, record, preserve, publish, and
disseminate the history of the American West in a series of
student-done, award-winning oral history magazines.
We have interviewed several Korean War veterans and are in
pursuit of more Korean War veterans in the L.A. area for our
"Korean War Series".
We have heard about your organization and would like to your
members if they would like to be interviewed about the
Korean War. Your members 'memories are a historical treasure
that ought to be preserved and an educational resource that
should be to educate today's students.
So we are very interested in interviewing Korean War
veterans in the L.A. area and hope that some of your members
might be interested.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and we are looking
forward to meeting some of your members.
Michael A. Brooks
Long, Long Ago Oral History Project Director
Email: Tecumsuh6@cs.com
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11. Newsletter Archive
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Many of our older newsletters can be found on the site at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_archive.html
Thanks to all of you for helping make the Korean War Project
successful.
Regards,
Hal and Ted Barker
hbarker@kwp.org
tbarker@kwp.org
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