Posted on Dec 6, 2015
Did you hear about South Korea honoring N.D. veterans?
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Did you hear about South Korea honoring N.D. veterans?
This was an old post that got lost in the Question to link conversion, but it was a good one - Enjoy!
Korean War veteran Dale Schindler, of Jamestown, shows the Bronze Star he received while fighting on the front lines in 1952. The medal at right is a Gratitude Medal for wartime service that is made of melted barbed wire from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea to this day.
Visitors from South Korea recently honored 18 North Dakota veterans, including a Jamestown man for service on the Korean peninsula more than 63 years ago.
Dale Schindler, 81, said he was fresh off his father’s Fessenden farm when he joined the U.S. Army in 1952. After basic training at Fort Riley, Kan., he was shipped to Fort Lewis, Wash., and was soon in Korea, where he served on the front lines until the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953.
“I was there 16 months,” Schindler said. “When they signed the truce in July, what they did was took us off the front and brought us back to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) that was the defense line at that time.”
The DMZ, which is 2.5 miles wide and 160 miles long, separates the Republic of Korea in the south from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the north. The Association of Korean National Foundation received the official medals from the Republic of Korea’s Department of Defense 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice commemoration ceremony in 2013.
Did you hear about South Korea honoring N.D. veterans?
This was an old post that got lost in the Question to link conversion, but it was a good one - Enjoy!
Korean War veteran Dale Schindler, of Jamestown, shows the Bronze Star he received while fighting on the front lines in 1952. The medal at right is a Gratitude Medal for wartime service that is made of melted barbed wire from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea to this day.
Visitors from South Korea recently honored 18 North Dakota veterans, including a Jamestown man for service on the Korean peninsula more than 63 years ago.
Dale Schindler, 81, said he was fresh off his father’s Fessenden farm when he joined the U.S. Army in 1952. After basic training at Fort Riley, Kan., he was shipped to Fort Lewis, Wash., and was soon in Korea, where he served on the front lines until the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953.
“I was there 16 months,” Schindler said. “When they signed the truce in July, what they did was took us off the front and brought us back to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) that was the defense line at that time.”
The DMZ, which is 2.5 miles wide and 160 miles long, separates the Republic of Korea in the south from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the north. The Association of Korean National Foundation received the official medals from the Republic of Korea’s Department of Defense 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice commemoration ceremony in 2013.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs - Mikel; No I hadn't heard about it, but I thank you for posting it.
This type of honor is probably the most heartwarming type because it come from the people who were helped.
This type of honor is probably the most heartwarming type because it come from the people who were helped.
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The Korean witnessed the most brutal fighting. For example, Colonel Don Faith of the 7th Infantry Division was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading his regiment out of a trap that was sprung by the Chinese Communist Forces. The award was posthumous. "This Kind of War" by T.R. Fehernbach is, in my opinion, the definitive book on the Korean war and should have a wide audience amongst combat veterans.
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SPC Benjamin Hartog
Another stirring book about the Korean War is SLA Marshall's "The River and the Gauntlet" that covers the defeat of the 8th Army particularly the destruction of the 2nd Infantry Division in the winter of 1950 by the Chinese Communist Forces. This is a must read for any Korean War veteran who took part in that calamitous battle.
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Good on South Korea!!!, huge honor that strengthens the bond between our Nations.
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