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Newsletter October 3, 2001
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October 3 2001 Newsletter | Distribution 21,000
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Table of Contents
1. About the Newsletter
2. Mailing List information
3. MIA Update CILHI Report
4. World Trade Center | Pentagon | Plane Crash
5. American War Orphans Network
6. Membership Drive
7. Housekeeping - Web Site Errors
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1. About the Newsletter
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Many of our visitors are new and don't know much about our
history on the Net. We are a small non-profit or charity,
a IRS 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization comprised of a Board of
Directors of 2 persons ( 1 position vacant ) and then Hal and I to run
the site.
The Newsletter is our way of sending out information to all
who have entered information on our public databases, the
GuestBook, Looking For, Remembrance, and the BBS's.
Additionally, others are sent the news by many of you in
other newsletters or email chains, literally, thousands of
persons.
Do see our links on the site to give a sense of what we are
about:
a. About the Projecthttps://www.koreanwar.org/html/about_the_project.html
b. Non-Profit Information
https://www.koreanwar.orgnonprofit1.htm
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2. Mailing List information
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The list for the Newsletter comes from the entries in our
various data areas and entries made on the site.
TO Unsubscribe, Please Put Unsubscribe in the
Subject Space and Send back to us Immediately!
Note: to prevent further email from being delivered, Ted
deletes all reference to that person from the entire site.
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3. MIA Update CILHI Report - New Recovered Remains
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As reported in this newsletter and in many other places on
the Internet, CILHI and DPMO have been working inside North
Korea over the past several years to identify locations to
search for remains of American Servicmen from the Korean War.
Ongoing work in the Unsan area (several years now)and Kujang
Counties continues this year. As well, work has commenced in
the Chosin or Changjing Reservoir area for the first time.
Many of you know that CILHI and DPMO lost many of their team
members in April of 2001 in a tragic helicopter crash in North
Vietnam.
Steve Thompson of CILHI reports recent success of 17 sets of
remains for the Spt/Oct work detail:
Comrades,
This Friday October 5 at 0900 a repatriation ceremony will be held at
Hickam AFB.
During this most recent operation in North Korea, CILHI teams
recovered the remains of 17 individuals believed to be American
Soldiers. For those of you here in Hawaii, Randy, Aaron and
myself will see you there.
Aloha,
Steve Thompson
Senior Korean Analyst
US Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii
Subject: Remains of U.S. Servicemen Recovered in North Korea
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense
No. 472-01
(703)695-0192(media)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2001
(703)697-5737(public/industry)
REMAINS OF U.S. SERVICEMEN RECOVERED IN NORTH KOREA
Remains believed to be those of 17 American soldiers, missing
in action from the Korean War will be repatriated in formal
ceremonies Tuesday, Korea time. This is the largest number
of remains recovered in a single joint recovery operation
since U.S. teams began their work in North Korea in 1996.
The remains will be flown on a U.S. Air Force aircraft from
Pyongyang, North Korea, under escort of a uniformed U.S.
honor guard to Yokota Air Base, Japan, where a United Nations
Command repatriation ceremony will be held.
Operating near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, a joint
U.S. - Korea team recovered 14 remains believed to be those
of U.S.Army soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division who fought
against Chinese forces Nov.- Dec. 1950. Approximately 1,000
Americans are estimated to have been lost in battles of the
Chosin campaign.
Additionally, a second team recovered three sets of remains
in Unsan and Kujang counties and along the Chong Chon River,
about 60 miles north of Pyongyang. The area was the site of
battles between Communist forces and the U.S. Army's
1st Cavalry Division, and 2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions in
November 1950.
The Defense Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office
negotiated an agreement with the North Koreans last year
which led to the scheduling of this year's operations.
The 28-person U.S. teams are composed primarily of specialists
from the Army's Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii
(CILHI).
This year's schedule of operations in North Korea is the
largest yet, with ten individual operations scheduled near
the Chosin Reservoir, as well as in the Unsan, Kujang and
Kaechon City areas. Twenty-five individual operations have
been conducted since 1996 in North Korea, recovering 144 sets
of remains believed to be those of U.S. soldiers. Eight have
been positively identified and returned to their families
for burial with full military honors. Another 12 are in
the final stages of the forensic identification process.
Web version:
www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/b10012001_bt472-01.html
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4. World Trade Center | Pentagon | Pennsylvania
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We sent out messages in September with condolences to all
affected personally by the tragedy of September. 11th. Many
hundreds of you replied from all over the world.
It turns out that many of our web site visitors and members
have experienced losses of friends or family.
Many others of you have family or friends who were among
the missing Fire, Police or EMS personnel.
Others either have friends, family or have been working at
the crash sites.
To all of you who have suffered a personal loss, we send out
our warmest condolences in this time of mourning.
For those of you who are working in the impact zones, take
care and be well.
Finally, for our Active Duty service personnel; Stay Alert
and keep SAFE. Be Ready! And, thank you for serving.
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5. American War Orphans Network
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Jim Cooper (19th Inf Rgt) Reports
Are you aware of the American War Orphans network? I just
learned about it via American Legion Magazine - July 2001.I
am excited as it appears to have the resources/know how to
aid survivors in locating men who served with their relative(s).
They are at: 540-310-0750, awon@aol.org and www.awon.org
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Fredericksburg, VA.
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6. Membership Drive
==========================================================7. Housekeeping - web site errors
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If you spot a bad email address, a broken link or error when
trying to pull up a page on the site, do let Ted know ASAP.
Use this format:
Email to: Ted Barker: tbarker@kwp.org
Subject: Error report
Give location on site, eg: BBS (Army, Navy), Looking For
(unit page), etc.
Thanks to all of you for helping make the Korean War Project
successful. Special thanks to all who have assisted in the
Finding the Families Program
Hal and Ted Barker
hbarker@kwp.org tbarker@kwp.org
Korean War Project
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