It could be a page right out of the Korean War novel, War Remains. Another soldier, Corporal James Rexford Hare, has come home from a forgotten war. And this time, it’s a soldier who was captured during the battle at Hoengseong. Hare was in the 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, which was part [...]
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Welcome Home Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann
Today, there is one less service member missing from the Korean War. The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Pfc. Glenn [...]
Welcome Home, Bobby
It took sixty years, but one more soldier is coming home. Bobby Ray King went to war more than 60 years ago and never came back. His parents and immediate relatives died without knowing what happened to the 19-year-old with the gap-toothed grin, and King became a footnote in family history. But the military didn’t [...]
Armistice Day
That’s what my grandparents called Veteran’s Day. Back when I was a child growing up in the 1960s, I often spent Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day at my grandparents’ house east of LaSalle. It was on one of those Armistice/Veteran’s Day when my grandmother told me about the origins of the holiday. “The armistice was signed on [...]
Welcome Home Pfc James Mullins
And just in time for Veteran’s Day. A Korean War soldier who went missing 62 years ago has been buried with full military honors in a North Carolina veterans cemetery, after his remains were finally identified. The Fatyetteville Observer reports Saturday (http://bit.ly/Sj8D2y) that Army Pfc. James Curtis Mullins was buried in Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery [...]
Full-Circle
In 2001, while writing for the Korea Times as a feature writer, I had the opportunity and the the honor to meet a group of Korean War veterans who came to Korea to visit the Chipyong-ni battlefield near Wonju and Hoengseong. One of the veterans I met was Oscar Cortez, who was captured by the [...]
Ice Cream Headache — Coming Soon
Set in a small town in Illinois in 1968, the novella centers on the lives of a community of people whose lives intertwine on one fateful day in May of that year, including: Ray Jackson, isolated and strong in the face of losing his business and wife; Johnny Fitzpatrick, who has decided to run off [...]
Inchon Landing — September 15, 1950
Today is the 62nd anniversary of Operation Chromite or as it is better known as, the Inchon Landing. In 2000, when I was a feature writer for the Korea Times, I covered the ceremony as part of the newspaper’s coverage of Korean War commemorative events. On that day, a typhoon was battering the peninsula and [...]
Soda Jerk
I don’t recall ever seeing a soda jerk in action, but I do remember as a young child going to a drugstore and having an ice cream soda at the store’s soda fountain. Years later, when I was in high school, I would often go to Ford Hopkin’s drugstore in downtown LaSalle, Illinois which had [...]
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