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Newsletter - May 15, 2001Korean War Project
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190
214-320-0342
www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_may15.html
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May 15, 2001 Newsletter
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Table of Contents
1. Search For Korean War MIA/POW Family DNA
2. Book Release - Andrew Carroll - The Legacy Project
3. Memberships | Sponsorships
5. Korean War Project System Upgrade
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1. Finding The Families: The Search For Korean War
POW/MIA Family DNA
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The Korean War Project announces Finding The Families,
an Internet based initiative to find over 6,000 families
of servicemen Missing In Action/POW from the Korean War.
As tensions cool on the Korean peninsula, many remains
of servicemen lost in the Korean War will be eventually
repatriated to the United States. DNA samples are needed
from these 6,000 families in order to make it possible to
attempt to indentify remains in the future.
For more information send us an email or call Ted at
214-320-0342
Also visit our Finding The Families webpage at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/finding_the_families.html
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Editor's Note: The following project is no longer supported by the Korean War Project. 2. Book Release - Andrew Carroll - Legacy Project
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Over the past few months I have told you about a young man
named Andrew Carroll working on a book titled:
WAR LETTERS: Extraordinary
Correspondence from American Wars
(Scribner).
The book is being published today nationwide.
Andy has been working on WAR LETTERS for almost three years,
and he is donating ALL of his earnings to veterans
organizations, including the Korean War Project.
I wanted you to know about this book, because I think it is
truly special and something we all need to
support. (And the better it does, the more Andy will have to give away!)
WAR LETTERS features approximate 200 previously-unpublished
letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II,
Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and even Somalia and
Bosnia.
The overwhelming majority of the letters are by unknown
soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, war nurses, chaplains,
medics, and even anxious wives and parents on the homefront.
But there are also never-before-seen letters by
William T. Sherman, Clara Barton, George A. Custer, Theodore
Roosevelt, Patton, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Benjamin O. Davis
Sr., Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Julia Child (who worked with the
OSS-the precursor to the CIA-during WWII), and Norm
Schwarzkopf. There are also eyewitness accounts of
Gettysburg, Lincoln's assassination, Pearl Harbor, D-Day,
Iwo Jima, the Battle for Chosin Reservoir, the Tet
Offensive, and many, many more major clashes and historic
events.
Tom Brokaw gave Andy a terrific quote, saying: "Andrew
Carroll has given America a priceless treasure. These
letters are intimate, deeply personal portraits of the
courage, sacrifice, and sense of duty that made this
country." And the esteemed war historian Stephen Ambrose
calls the book "breathtaking" and, "one of the greatest,
most riveting books of war letters I have ever read."
The book is $28, and, starting today, you can get it
anywhere, including on-line. WAR LETTERS is a lasting
tribute to everyone who has ever served this nation, and
these letters, I can assure you, are like nothing you've
ever read. I know there's been a lot of focus on war these
days, but I think what makes WAR LETTERS so unique is that
it covers so many different American wars, including (of
course) Korea, which as we all know is so often forgotten.
The book also presents war in the most vivid and dramatic
way imaginable-through the words of those who were actually
there to see and experience it firsthand.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone you think
might be interested-whether they are a veteran or not.
Note: orders placed through our Amazon.com link on the
Bookstore does earn the Korean War Project a bit of a bonus.
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3. Memberships | Sponsorships
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As always, our Membership Drive really needs your
help. We are still behind in our goal to reach 5000
members.
The Korean War Project is free to all visitors, but our
members keep us online.
If you are not a member, please consider joining. It only
costs $15.00 per year and helps keep the Korean War Project
online.
To become a member, go to:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/membership.html
Note: those who wish to use online credit card may now do so
thanks to AOL Foundation's Helping.org. Click on the graphic
"Donate now" in the Membership page and follow the form
instructions.
Standard mailing address is the same, see Membership page.
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5. Korean War Project System Upgrade
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We have recently moved our physical location and now have
better access to a high speed internet connection.
Last January 2001 we were using a 128K ISDN
Internet connection,Our system is now running a 960K SDSL while means an almost 900 percent increase in speed and availability.
More upgrades in the works...
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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
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