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November 26, 2002 Newsletter
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Table of Contents
1. Korean War Project Pledge Drive Continues
2. Excerpts of Recollections - November 11th Newsletter
3. DMZ War messages
4. Canadian Medals' Mounting Shop Ltd
5. International KWP site visitors
6. Australian War Memorial
7. SCARWAF - online book by Jim Foreman
8. 633d Engineer Light Equipment Company
9. For Members, Sponsors | Donors
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1. Korean War Project Pledge Drive Continues
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On August 28th, we made notice of our "August Pledge Drive".
Over 697 persons responded to our request for financial
help. Several of those people suggested that we run the
campaign 3 to 4 times per year, similar to PBS on TV.
See our link:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_august_28_2002.html
Many of the donations continue to come from long term pen
pals developed since 1995. Each of those is recorded on our
Membership | Sponsors area.
The letters, notes and email that accompanied that drive
were and continue to be inspirational and heart-warming.
Many of the contributors have family or friends still
missing or "unaccounted for" from the war.
Living tributes from many of those donors appear in the
Guestbook, Looking For and Remembrance areas of our site.
Quote from August 28th: " Due to a severe downturn in
donations, we are urging all persons or groups who have not
previously donated to our nonprofit (IRS 501c3) website to
do so now.
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Donations have been and will continue to be Voluntary! The
Korean War Project is Free To All Visitors, But Voluntary
Donations Keep Us Online.
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Our Continuing Goal:
A) The Korean War Project has been online since February of
1995 to help record tributes to our servicemen and women who
served in Korea. The KIA/ MIA database, the Looking For and
Remembrance areas indicate that living tribute.
B) We continue to routinely provide contact information to
media from around the world for stories about the Korean War
and the DMZ War.
C) Working with the Department of Defense Service Casualty
offices for our "Finding the Families" initiative is still
on the top of our mission list.
D) As the date of July 27th 2003 nears, we wish to be in
position to continue our tribute to the veterans and their
families.
Thank you for financial help you can provide.
See: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/membership.html
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2. Excerpts of Recollections - November 11th Newsletter
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Hal and I received many email from folks who enjoyed the two
excerpts from Recollections on Jack Morris and Ted Hofsiss
in the last newsletter.
One reader even knew Jack and many more were on the same
ship home!
Inquires on Mr. Hofsiss' book continue to roll in.
Quite a few of you sent in your own stories and we shall be
sharing those stories with our viewers in the near future.
Thanks to all who responded!
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3. DMZ War messages
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An excerpt from a visitor: - - -
Ted,
I served as a JSA MP, from OCT 1966 to FEB 1968. I was aware
of the work that we were doing, as well as much of the work
of other DMZ units. From my vantage point, the war was not
cold for those of us who served in the DMZ at that time.
George Cole
In Front of Them All
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Another excerpt:
Dear Mr Barker;
Just a short note to advise you that I truly enjoy these
newsletters. I am a veteran of the Joint Security Area at
PanMunJom. This tour was a real eye-opener, as a Infantryman
I relied on the training I received and continued to
received from the seasoned Non-coms I was assigned to serve
with.
As I sat in my home tonight I reflected on the bitterly cold
night patrols right along the MDL markers at the 38th
parallel waiting for the AK 47s to start firing. After a
while you could just guess when the gun timers would go off.
It still was a terrifying experience. Well Its late, I will
write again,
Have a great Veterans Day
Sincerely,
Cliff
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A) Be sure to see our DMZ War section on the site at:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/dmzvets.htm
Note: there is also important information on the use of
Agent Orange in this section of the site.
B) Check out the new Imjin Scout web site at:
https://www.imjinscout.com
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4. Canadian Medals' Mounting Shop Ltd
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List of Replica Medals / Crosses / Stars / Decorations &
Awards
Joe Lefebvre, General Manager for the company sent us his
web link some time ago. We wanted to share this with our audience today.
Email:
medals.cmms@ns.sympatico.ca
Web site: https://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/medals.cmms/
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5. International KWP site visitors
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Hey Barkers,
Thanks for the access to the newsletter. I send you
greetings form the Slovak Republic, city of Kosice, and USS.
Having the newsletter to read monthly is great and helps me
instill just what the USA is about with the Slovaks and the
young expats who have little school housing about the price
of liberty.
Standing tall in the face of adversity is not considered a
bad characteristic by most of the PEOPLE in the world.
Well done and Semper Fi,
Jim "Doc" Pitzer
h-3-7 1st. Marine Div 53/54
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6. Australian War Memorial
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We received the following from Down Under:
From: Web Manager <ememorial@awm.gov.au>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E-MEMORIAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Newsletter of the Australian War Memorial
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ November 2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> 1. REMEMBRANCE DAY 2002
> 2. NEW ONLINE SHOP
> 3. WARTIME ISSUE 20
> 4. NEW BOOK LAUNCHED
> 5. BATTLEFIELD TOURS: GALLIPOLI AND THE WESTERN FRONT
> 6. EXHIBITIONS
> 7. TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
> 8. TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS
> 9. NEW ON THE WEBSITE
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> 1. REMEMBRANCE DAY 2002
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Monday 11 November, 10.15 am
Join us at the Memorial for the 84th observance of
Remembrance Day to remember those who died or suffered for
Australia's cause in all wars and armed conflicts.
Web site: https://www.awm.gov.au/
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7. SCARWAF - online book by Jim Foreman
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Here is a link to Jim's online book on SCARWAF in Korea:
https://www.jimforeman.com/Books/book_menu.htm
Jim was with the 1903rd EAB.
(Editor Note: to viewers, send us your book information -
Ted)
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8. 633d Engineer Light Equipment Company
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All officers and enlisted men who were assigned to the 633d
Engineer Light Equipment Company during World War II and the
Korean War are encouraged to contact me to get their
feelings about a company reunion:
Daryl D. Schultz
21 Forest Lane
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
or: Email: schultzd@ameritech.net
Editor note: the KWP wants to hear from all Reunion
Coordinators.
Feel free to use the Add Reunion link or post to the unit
page on Looking For
Add Reunion:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_project_data.html?com_url=add_reunion
View Reunion: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/reunions.html
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9. For Members, Sponsors | Donors
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Commencing June 25th of 2002, the KWP began a surface mail
program to contact each and every person or group who has
donated to the web site.
So far, we have mailed to 1182 of those and will continue
until we have contacted or tried to reach each of you using
mailing addresses from the donations.
Thank you for making the Korean War Project a success!
Hal and Ted Barker
Korean War Project |
