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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Thank you Col. !!! South Korea 'cares' about 'our' Veterans even if DC does Not !!! North Korea, HOORRAAH !!!!
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Lost an uncle in the fighting, never found his body or as I later learned not enough of his or the rest of his platoon to figure who was who or what was who.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
MSgt Ronnie Kelly Very sad to here Ronnie. I hope they are in a better place now - God Bless them all!
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Last year two members of my VFW post in Tennessee received medals from South Korea.
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My father was in Korean war got two purple hearts!! He had a picture of the last day he was in Seoul and there was just a few buildings standing. I took pictures from same spot when I was stationed there in 87-88. He was just amazed at how much they built in the 34yrs since he was there. And definitely kudos to the South Korea government on the recognition. Now they just need to do something about the little nutsack to the North of them.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
My first duty station was Camp Casey Korea. I learned so much history while being there. I have a special place in my heart for all of the heroes in that war, and all other wars.
My first duty station was Camp Casey Korea. I learned so much history while being there. I have a special place in my heart for all of the heroes in that war, and all other wars.
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