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Newsletter for May 5th, 2005
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Table of Contents
1. Editorial, marking 10 years online
2. Construction dust - upgrading
3. 'Hal is Down' Update
4. Websites of interest, a sampling
5. A Thank You from Seoul
6. KWP Casualty Database and Finding the Families - Updates
7. U.S. MIA Team Visit to North Korea in progress
8. Bookstore
9. Korean War Memorial at the University of Kansas
10. Membership Pledge Drive
11. Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House
12. Temporary Lodging at Military Installations
13. Death of Father Philip Crosbie, Tiger Survivor
14. Korea 1945-48 for Korean Broadcasting Service
15. This Mailing List Subscribe | Unsubscribe
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1. Editorial, marking 10 years online
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Ten years online! Boy has the time flown for the Barker Boys. Between
keeping the pieces of machinery and software running or attempting to
keep pace with our visitors, it only seems like a few weeks. Our tired
eyes say differently as does the stack of outmoded computer parts or
software that have piled up in the garage and closets.
It is time to take stock and to give thanks to all who have become like
family to both of us.
We also pause to remember and to say goodbye to so many of the men and
women who crossed paths with us over the decade but have passed this
life. I shall speak directly to you because all of you are in our
hearts.
Goodbye, my friends, and Thank You for sharing part of your lives with
us.
Many of our pen pals are currently facing serious illness. We shall
wish you speedy recovery.
For all of our young men and women on active duty around the world,
stay safe, come home soon. Your fallen comrades are also remembered by
the family and veterans who served in prior years and wars.
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2. Construction dust - upgrading
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Everyone who has visited the website in recent months has encountered
the dust from the ongoing work to make the site function better. Keep
your hard hats handy as much more change is coming!
What began as stopping outsiders from sending unwanted spam email to
our users grew quickly into a full revamp. This also includes replacing
old software and broken computers.
You will notice that sending email to Guestbook or Looking For sections
now requires a bit more work on your part. The steps are included to
fully "mask" your email address. Those steps also include a review
section for you to ensure your full email address or message is correct
prior to sending it.
Hal and I strongly suggest that users consider surface mail or phone
contact as well as email to ensure that contact is made. Many internet
users nowadays use blocking measures for email which often results in
undelivered email.
Unit page update and inclusion of units not previously listed is also
part of the upgrade. This includes removal of older reunion information
on those pages. Please be sure to update us on upcoming reunions.
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3. 'Hal is Down' Update
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Many hundreds of you have asked about the post for Hal Barker
being "down" in our January 31st Newsletter.
We don't have him patched up yet but now have a very good pricing on
medical services, so are closing in on the actual procedure.
If you are coming in late, younger brother developed a hernia most
likely related to his construction jobs from last summer. Heavy lifting
is the culprit as far as we can determine.
Several of you were very kind to send along some funds to help defray
costs. That gesture was above and beyond the call of duty and has been
very much appreciated. We now have about half of the amount needed. So,
Thank You very much.
The upside of this ailment is that the Korean War Project has had Hal's
full attention since January for programming work on the site.
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4. Websites of interest, a sampling
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The 17th Artillery at: https://www.17thartilleryregiment.org/
Mary-Ann Vandaveer has a site to assist in finding people at:
https://www.SearchingForYou.org
Lackland AFB is trying to collect photos of training flights at:
https://www.lackland.af.mil/info/flightphoto.asp
British Korean War Veteran Middlesex Branch and links at:
https://www.chls11113.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
The British Korean War Veterans Association at:
https://www.bkva.co.uk/
Korean War Veterans Association (USA) at:
https://www.kwva.org
2nd Infantry Division Korean War Veterans Alliance at:
https://www.2id.org
8228th MASH at: https://www.8228mash.com/files/
Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Recruiting Region Parris Island, S.C.
https://www.mcrdpi.usmc.mil/
Korean War MIA Research at: https://koreanwarmias.com/
This group is made up of members of the Korean War Project. They
undertake to pro-actively find families of Korean War MIA. A big tip of
the hat is in order.
See more links and post yours on the Korean War Project at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/history_and_reference.html
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5. A Thank You from Seoul
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From: Y.O. Ahn
To: Ted Barker
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Dear Ted:
On behalf of all the Koreans who remember the Korean War and are
grateful for the American help in keeping our nation from the invasion,
please give our sincerest thanks to all those who helped us during the
War.
With all the best,
Youngok Ahn
Seoul
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6. KWP Casualty Database and Finding the Families - Updates
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Over the past couple of months we have been able to devote time to
update what has become one of our core areas of the site, our casualty
files. Part of the update has been the inclusion of recent data
forwarded by the Dpt. of Defense as well as from our website
visitors. More updates from the Department of Defense are underway and
will be included in our online files.
Correction of errors and omissions is an ongoing process, so many
thanks to those of you who continue to give name, unit and date
corrections.
Tributes left on our Remembrance area have led our volunteers to
helping family members contact Department of Defense Casualty Officers
for information on their loved ones who are still not fully accounted
for from the war.
Many of the JPAC team are regular visitors to our website. We welcome
you and on behalf of all the KWP family, "Thank You" for the hard work
being undertaken in Hawaii at CIL, at the AFDIL labs in the Washington,
DC Metro area, and at the Pentagon. We do not forget the hard work of
the field forensic teams from JPAC serving around the world.
A very special "Thank You" goes out to Noemi Figueroa Soulet of El Pozo
Productions. She took time out from her schedule to help find hometowns
for many Puerto Rican casualties listed on our site. That information
is now online.
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7. U.S. MIA Team Visit to North Korea in progress
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News Release
On the web:
https://dod.mil/releases/2004/nr20050420-2722.html
Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131
U.S. MIA Team Visit to North Korea Announced
The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that
for the 10th consecutive year, teams of U.S. specialists have begun
recovery missions of missing in action (MIA) servicemen in North Korea.
The 27-man team entered North Korea April 16 and deployed to two base
camps from which the remains recovery work will be done. One of the
primary areas of operations will be in Unsan County, about 60 miles
north of Pyongyang. The other will be near the Chosin Reservoir in the
northeast part of the country.
In Unsan County, U.S. forces battled Chinese units in the battles of
Unsan and the Chong Chon River November-December 1950. About 300 U.S.
soldiers are believed to be missing in Unsan County from those battles.
During the Chosin Campaign, also November-December 1950, more than
1,000 Americans are missing from combat against Chinese forces.
Specialists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) are
scheduled to carry out their work during five month-long periods
between April and late October. The current operation will end mid-May.
Since 1996, these teams have recovered remains believed to be those
of more than 200 Americans. Twenty have been identified and returned to
their families.
Operations for 2005 were set in DPMO-led negotiations with North Korea
last November. U.S. teams in the field number up to 13 men each, with
two additional personnel in Pyongyang to provide logistical and
communications support. The teams are comprised of both civilian and
military specialists. The lead scientific officer at each site is a
forensic anthropologist or archeologist from JPAC, with support from
specialists in mortuary affairs, explosive ordnance disposal, medicine,
vehicle maintenance and linguistics.
Of the 88,000 Americans missing from all conflicts since the beginning
of World War II, more than 8,100 are from the Korean War.
JPAC Website: https://www.cilhi.army.mil/
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8. Bookstore
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Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military
Fallen has shipped and is now available at Amazon or at your local
bookstore.
Author: Mike Sledge formerly of Shreveport, LA.
Reviews at Columbia University to include endorsement by Harold G.
Moore, Lt General, USA co-author of "We Were Soldiers Once and Young:
Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam.
https://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231135149.HTM
$29.95 cloth 376 pages
ISBN: 0-231-13514-9
Columbia University Press
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The Forgotten Generation
By Nick Lombardi
...my account of the Korean War era is published
Nick decided to write his book on the 50th Anniversary of the start of
the war. He interviewed former Cpl. Frank Chimera and the book is the
outgrowth of that series of taped conversations.
The pain of the war wounds suffered by Frank is the core of the book.
Most never discuss this but Nick brings the personal side of a private
man into close view. This is the life of a disabled veteran, lived well
in spite of pain.
Frank and Nick were High School chums but the intervening years during
and after the war kept them apart for over 30 years.
From Xlibris Press at: https://.www.xlibris.com/Lombardi.html.
ISBN 1-4134-7908-01
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The Korean War and Me: A Memoir by Ted Pailet
This book covers Ted's first 24 years to include his tour of duty in
Korea in the Quartermasters and Graves Registration/Recovery.
Thoughtful reading by a thoughtful man.
A young man of the South, his heritage plays through as he discusses
religion, race relations, and politics. He is well known for his legal
work in Tennessee and around the country providing conflict resolution
for clergy and lay leaders.
IUnviverse Press at: https://www.iuniverse.com
ISBN 0-595-33433-4 #13.95 US
Ted Pailet tedpailet@aol.com
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Cold Ground's Been My Bed: A Korean War Memoir
by Daniel Wolfe
Many of you will remember yourself on the Confidence Course, the
General Simon Buckner and all that being a young man getting ready for
war entails. Dan wound up a Bar man, somehow the small guys always
wound up with the big Browning Automatic.
After decades teaching High School, Dan Wolfe decided to take lessons
on writing books. During that process he discovered that he had been
put up for The Bronze Star while serving with the 15th Infantry
Regiment, L Company 3rd ID, in Korea.
This "Bronx Boy" lives in New York and decided to get his story out
there on the 55th Anniversary of the beginning of the war. It is a no-
holds-barred look back.
IUnviverse Press at: https://www.iuniverse.com
ISBN 0-595-34135-7 $22.95 US
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STAN CLARK MILITARY BOOKS
915 Fairview Avenue, Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: 717-337-1728 Fax: 717-337-0581
E-mail:
usmc@blazenet.net
CATALOG # 40: U. S. MARINE CORPS BOOKS
PAYPAL, VISA and MasterCard, check or money order accepted. Shipping
charges are $ 5.00 for the first book and $ 1.00 for each additional
book. Overseas orders will be charged at cost (please specify Surface
or Air Mail, Insured or Not Insured). Please specify Catalog #40, Item
# and Title when ordering.
When ordering via email, you will receive confirmation that the item is
available prior to sending your payment. All items subject to prior
sale.
Thank you & Semper Fi!
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 War Memorial at the University of Kansas
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April 16th, 2005
~https://www.ku.edu/~kunews/2005/April/Apr4/dedication.shtml
Here is a link to the various special events leading up to the
dedication ceremony. https://www.ceas.ku.edu/koreanMemorial/
Kevin Boatright
Associate Executive Vice Chancellor for External Affairs
The University of Kansas
Strong Hall, 1450 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 230
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7535
(785) 864-7100: Phone
(785) 864-5349: Fax
kboatright@ku.edu
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10. Membership Pledge Drive
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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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11. Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House
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Who we are:
I am running the Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House. It is setup
along the lines of the Ronald McDonald House.
Where Veterans come from as far away as Harrisburg, Reading, Allentown,
Williamsport, Scranton, Wilkes Barre for Cancer treatment and so they
don't have to go home and come back the next day. The VA Hospital give
our Organization Board $ 40 a nite for as many nites that it takes to
complete their treatment. Its like a Home away from Home. That is our
Motto on our Brochure and Letterhead. As Board Members we take no
salary for what we do. just to see the look on there face when they
leave is payment enough.
We are a 501c non profit Organization Our yearly Budget is around
$24,00.00, Our Income from the Service Organizations and the VA $ 40.00
A Nite per patient come to around $20,000.00 The rest comes for
donations other than the above which is Tax Deductable.
So it is keeping me busy, but its a labor of love for me. I draw no
salary but am open Monday thru Friday 24 hrs a day. When the Veterans
get up on Friday morning they go to the VA for their treatment then get
their Van to go back to there local area. The ones with extended
treatment come back the next week until all treatment are completed,
then go home for good, hopefully there Cancer is in remission.
MSG Ret Raymond P. Perks
Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House
4108 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia,PA 19104
Phone: 215-387-3040
Fax: 215-387-4030
Email: _Rperks8613@aol.com_ (mailto:Rperks8613@aol.com)
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12. Temporary Lodging at Military Installations
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Hi Buddies
Here is the latest information about temporary lodging at military
installations available for retirees and active duty personnel.
Dick W MotelREbkr@aol.com
Air Force Inns Search (https://www.afsv.af.mil/LD/) toll free
1-888-235-6343
ArmyMWR Lodging page (https://www.armymwr.com/portal/travel/lodging/)
Coast Guard Installations
(https://www.militarymatch.com/Military%
20Installations/coast_guard_installations.htm)
navylodge.com (https://navylodge.com/) 1-800-628-9466
The Air Force people advised me that you can make reservations 3 days
prior to your arrival.
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13. Death of Father Philip Crosbie, Tiger Survivor
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From: Shorty Estabrook tigersurvivors@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 1:57 AM
Subject: Father Philip Crosbie
Dear Tigers, Next of Kin, Honorary Tigers and Friends:
Larry Zellers informed me today of the Promotion to Glory of Father
Philip Crosbie (Bing) in his native Australia on Tuesday 22nd of March
2005 at age 89.
Father Crosbie was with the group of Civilian Internees that were held
with the Tiger Survivors in Korea. He was arrested on 6 July 1950 and
was interrogated by the Tiger a few days later in a local jail.
Father Crosbie was held under house arrest by the Japanese Army when
the Second World War began and was soon deported to Australia. He
returned to Korea and his parish soon after the war.
Father Crosbie wrote a book that came out in three different titles.
March Till They Die, Three Winters Cold and Pencilling Prisoner. It is
a most accurate account of what happened to our group.
Even with the cold climate in Korea and the many many years that he
served there Father Crosbie had a long life and was a dear friend to us
all. He had a quick wit about him and suffered long and hard as a
Civilian Internee Tiger Survivor.
So we think of you now Father Crosbie, Catholics and Protestant and
Muslim alike. We miss you so very much.
Love to All,
Shorty Estabrook
Founder of the Tiger Survivors
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14. Korea 1945-48 for Korean Broadcasting Service
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If any of our visitors were in Korea during 1945-48, please contact Ted
Barker who will relay your interest in the KBS TV special to KBS.
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Dear Mr. Barker.
I'm researcher of Korea Broadcasting System(KBS). KBS is public
broadcasting network. I'm working in one of TV documentary teams of
KBS. My team makes TV documentary film about liberation of Korea 1945,
and it's sequel - Korean War : the Oral History(planned in 2006). Name
of our project is "Memory of Liberation"
In current project, we looking for American Veteran who served in Korea
during 1945~1948. Especially we looking for who landed in Incheon at
September 8th 1945.
If you have an opinion to help us, please send an e-mail to me.
I'll be waiting your answer.
Your regards.
Si-won Yoon. KBS. Seoul.
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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
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Consider forwarding the Newsletter to your friends. Thanks for being
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Korean War Project family.
Hal and Ted Barker
Korean War Project
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