Professor han there is no shortage of photographs, for example. Important thing is the merit date, when and where and who. If korean war veterans comes with that kind of picture so we can put the meta data, because its a database thats searchable, so we need the meta data and if photographs come with this information, we first choose those. Bill what about other things on the website, in terms of youve got photographs, oral history interviews, what else is on there . Professor han there are many writings about the korean war, and also we are trying to connect with the young generations, because there is a tremendous lesson out of the korean war, so we are trying to connect with the young generation using online social media. So were using facebook, twitter, instagram, constantly introducing pictures and artifacts to younger generations. One more important thing, in American History textbook, there are only one paragraphs covering about the korean war. In this workshop that i invited th
Joining us on American History tv is jong wu hon who is the founder and president of the korean war veterans digital memorial. Thanks for being here. Thank you for inviting me. This is great opportunity. Thank you. What is the korean war veterans digital memorial . As it says, its a digital memorial. Its a combination of database that is composed of interviews and historical artifacts from the korean war veterans who fought from 1950 to 53 in the korean war. And so i do the interview of the korean war veterans about their memories and their sacrifices and also i collect the artifacts like photographs that they actually took during the war and the letters that they wrote back to their families and other artifacts like promotion posters, maps and private and public documents that related to their service. So its a database of interviews and historical artifacts. Take us back to the beginning. What inspired you, and how did you make the initial moves . What did you do first . I do actuall
I told you there are 2 million people. So Big Community. And also there are many, many korean americans here and also americans who are aware of the importance of the korean war. So these, i think, this is a Big Community that Korean People can have in the United States and they are very, very supportive and proud of what korea has produced. So this is a Big Community. Bill we have a couple of minutes left. Lets go back to the photographs on the website, part of the database, and what you said is the start of the whole idea of seeing the photographs of veterans. How do you judge what to put on the website . You said you dont want the dramatic theme ones, the military actions, but the everyday shots. Professor han there is no shortage of photographs, for example. Important thing is the merit date, when and where and who. If korean war veterans comes with that kind of picture so we can put the meta data, because its a database thats searchable, so we need the meta data and if photographs
If memory serves me correctly, my mom kept the three or four letters that she got from me and i read those many times after i came home. Yes, she got them. I got three or four letters from home. My sister wrote to me every three or four days. We didnt get all the mail that was sent to us. I know that for sure because my family members a lot of them wrote letters to me but i didnt get that many. I got a few. You still keep the letter . When did your family and parents know that you are in the camp . As you may know we were carried as mia for a long time. They had no confirmation of my status until about august or september of 51. There was an exchange of information between the chinese and our government. They did have large number of pows. I dont know when this information was passed or when either side honored what the other side said. As far as the status of the troops, i dont know. I believe that my mom and dad got word that we were no longer mia that we were pow. Pow. They didnt kn
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