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Korean War Project
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190
214-320-0342
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Late March 2002 Newsletter March 25, 2002
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Table of Contents
1. This Mailing List
2. New Site Search Tool - Ver. 1
3. Membership
4. Site Updates - Looking For Navy Units
5. Looking For - UN Forces, Air Force and Army Units
6. American Legion Post #519-Donates to Lyons Veterans Hosp.
7. Washington County, Georgia, Korean War Veterans Monument
8. COIN Assist Program-MIA Families attending DPMO meeting!
9. Web Sites of interest
10.Ham Radio Operators - Korean War "Net Control"
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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. New Site Search Tool - Ver. 1
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We are working on getting a much needed search tool
completed. The first version is now online at:
https://www.koreanwar.org
Some basic instructions are posted on the page.
Report errors to Ted Barker <tbarker@kwp.org>
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4. Site Updates - Looking For Navy Units
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Many new ship pages and aviation pages are up on the Navy
department of Looking For. For NAFTS and MSTS ships and
units, please post comments in those areas.
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5. Looking For - UN Forces, Air Force and Army Units
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Site upgrades for including more missing units are underway.
Current work on UN areas, starting with Commonwealth is next
up on our agenda.
Messages for Add Units are in our work queue's, some dating
back about many months. Bear with us in this project.
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6. American Legion Post #519-Donates to Lyons Veterans Hosp.
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In response to our recent notice about the "Kitchen Table
Gang", the KWP received the following:
From: Len Fahrer (email on request)
To: <
tbarker@kwp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002
Subject: RE: Korean War Project - Late February Newsletter
I am proud of what the Kitchen Table Gang is doing. In line
with that, my American Legion Post #519 has contributed
$1000 to the rehab department at Lyons Veterans Hospital
here in New Jersey and there will be more coming.
We are here to help our fellow veterans.
Len Fahrer, Sgt-At Arms
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7. Washington County, Georgia, Korean War Veterans Monument
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8 February 2002
Dear Ted,
Would you run the following notice in your newsletter? We
don't want to miss anyone, and are especially anxious to
hear from surviving families of those who have died since
the war.
A monument to Korean War Veterans from Washington County,
Georgia, is under development, to list all veterans who
served in the armed services at least 91 days between 27
June 1950 and 31 January 1955, and who were residents of
Washington County for a total of at least 15 years,
including time before, during or after the war.
For an application form, email request to:
rtsmith@accucomm.net
or write to:
Ron Smith
3912 Harrison Pringle Rd
Wrightsville, GA 31096
So far, we have over 300 names, including all KIA from the
county, but we know there are others.
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8. COIN Assist Program-MIA Families attending DPMO meeting
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Jan Curran, Board Member of the Korean War Project, writes:
Coin Assist is a program whereby the government pays for two
family members to attend the annual DPMO meeting in DC each
June or July. Vietnam family members have had it in place
for years, so naturally Korean War family members wanted it
as well.
It provides for airfare only, hotel accommodations and meals
are left for the family members to provide.
To get more information on the program, people need to
contact their casualty officer, who should have the details
by now.
Jan's web site can be reached at:
1.) DNA Testing: ~https://home.earthlink.net/~janc1947/
2.) POW/MIA Issues:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/pow_mia.html
Annual meeting: Washington, DC July 27, 2002.
Contact DPMO and your DOD Casualty officer
(see page links above)
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9. Web Sites of interest
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Be sure to always check the Reference section on the KWP at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/history_and_reference.html
Here is a sample of links sent to us from email:
https://www.combatcamera.org
Capt. Don Kader, USAFR (Ret.)
Secretary
International Combat Camera Association
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10. Ham Radio Operators - Korean War "Net Control"
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( Note From Hal Barker, former WA4AQE and WD0HTG)A great idea from one of our pen pals:
Hi Ted:
Was talking to a Submarine net on ham radio the other day on
14,242 MHz and was thinking about why don't we start one for
5th RCT on a similar frequency where people who were in the
5th, who are hams could sign in and look for others, chat
and like that, maybe on a Sunday morning.
You would need some ads and a person to be a "Net Control"
and maybe for an hour.
You monitor the frequency and put out calls telling who you
are and looking for sign ins. Just a thought!
Hank Sherman
Korea about 1953-54. Corporal
Hank Sherman
E-mail: hsherman@cybercomm.net
URL: ~https://www.cybercomm.net/~hsherman/
Genealogy, Ham radio, computers & Korea.
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Thanks to all of you for helping make the Korean War Project
successful.
Regards,
Hal and Ted Barker
hbarker@kwp.org
tbarker@kwp.org
Korean War Project
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