Sent to Hiroshima as forced laborers during WWII, they returned home to face poverty, prejudice and loneliness. Now they’re trying, one more time, for compensation from Japan By John M. Glionna Reporting from Hapcheon, South Korea — Shin Jin-tae says he lives in the unluckiest town on Earth. During World War II, when the Japanese [...]
by Steve Palisin Looking at the Korean Conflict plaque on a granite stone dedicated today in Myrtle Beach’s Valor Memorial Garden, Dolores Braginton realized that war began June 25, 1950 — nine years before her birth date. The Myrtle Beach resident was among a group of area Blue Star Mothers of America serving cookies and [...]
Recently we were in contact with a Veterans Advocate calling for expanded AO benefits for Veterans who served in Korea during the Vietnam War. Currently the DVA pays Veterans who served in specific Army battalions on DMZ duty during 1968-69. What we found was typical DVA carelessness. Just as they were hoist by their own [...]
The mass executions have been largely hidden from history Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation’s U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. With U.S. military [...]
Soldier Missing From The Korean War Is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, has been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Cpl. Clarence R. Becker, U.S. Army, of Lancaster, Pa. [...]
Saying Thank You to Our Korean War Vets “I am tired and sick of war,” said Gen. William T. Sherman. If so, he was fortunate not to have lived in the 20th and 21st centuries, whose hostilities would have exhausted him. There have been enough wars since Sherman’s day, in fact, that most of them [...]
SUPER BOWL MVP CHAMPION OFF TO KOREA IN SEARCH OF DAD’S OLD FIGHTING GROUNDS Hines Ward hopes trip to homeland opens eyes to plight of those of mixed blood PITTSBURGH – Growing up in suburban Atlanta, Hines Ward often felt he was a victim of double discrimination. Not only did some of his white classmates make [...]
Army deserter Jenkins plans visit to ailing momU.S. soldier crossed into North Korea in 1965; now lives in Japan A U.S. soldier who deserted his Army unit 40 years ago and fled to North Korea is planning to visit his ailing mother in the United States soon, an official said. It would be Charles Robert Jenkins’ [...]
U.S. veterans of Korean War treated like royalty by people of South Korea By THERESA CAMPBEL Left: Ralph Hoffmann was presented a medal from The Korean Freedom League for his service with the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. While it may be called “the forgotten war” in this country, Villages resident Ralph Hoffmann [...]
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