Of all the men listed as missing in action from the Chosin Reservoir in November-December 1950, perhaps none are more famous than Lt. Col. Don Faith who commanded the ill-fated Task Force Faith. His remains were positively identified last October and next week, April 17, he will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In late [...]
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Welcome Home, Corporal James Rexford Hare
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Chosin Few: General Raymond Davis and Henry Danilowski
General Raymond Davis, Hartell House, November 2000 Henry Danilowski, Knight Field, November 2000 Just finished reading a superb book on the Korean War and the fighting which took place at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea: The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of US Marines in Combat. I’ve read a number of books [...]
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 [...]
Where I Live
On a clear day, you really can see forever in Korea and that definitely was the case today before and after some freaky thunderstorms which cleared the air and made for a chilly, delightful autumn day in Daejeon. I snapped this photo from the 11th floor of SolBridge. In the distance, as indicated by the [...]
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 [...]
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