Than i ever have before, had before or have since. On that road. Id hate to venture a number but there were many. Both sides. Both sides. There had been a light machine gun set up just in front of me in this side of the ditch. And the people either didnt know or they were trying to rush them. I saw bodies lying crosswards. Because i saw bodies lying crossways. With american uniforms and chinese uniforms. And i cant get over that. But i have had many, many troublesome nights when i think about that. This happened when i was 21. And now im 85. I was leaving to get across the road and i was told to get into this hole. Are you familiar with the term katussa . Yeah. Well there was a katussa there. And they had been assigned to our unit maybe three weeks. I didnt recognize the individual. Before i got in the whole wing had been wounded. There was a canteen which was empty, a pair of binoculars laying on the ground. I dont know what happened to the person that had them. I assume he must have
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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