Austin, Tx (FOX 44) – A Leon County businessman and former mayor of the town of Leona was one of two men honored posthumously with the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor. This is the highest military decoration conferred on a service member of the Texas military forces. U.S. Army Sgt. Major Jerry Lynn Bell, of […]
Confined to the house endlessly, day after day, to avoid exposure to COVID-19, I missed lots of things outdoors. Most of all, I missed the clean, fresh air and the pretty, verdant growth of nature on Mt. Jagoh, which rises to a modest elevation of 303 meters. Waegwan is a small town with a population of less than 50,000 and there is nothing much to enjoy, from the perspective of culture and entertainment. It doesn’t even have a single cinema.
I taught my first Korean language course, Elementary Korean 111, at Camp Carroll Education Center in Waegwan in the fall of 1965. I was exhilarated and proud to teach a college course for a fully accredited university in the United States.
I started teaching when I was a junior in college. I taught English at a night high school in Daegu not far from home. It was shortly after my three-year active service in the Korean War. Everybody was poor and found living difficult in the war-torn, devastated country.
Colonel M K Unni Nayar was the only Indian killed during the Korean War whose remains could not be brought back from South Korea. To this day, every year, officials in Daegu pay tribute to Nayar in honour of his services during the war.