The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association
The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association
The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association
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Michigan Remembers<br />
At right is the<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> <strong>War</strong> Memorial<br />
in St. Joseph, MI at<br />
Look-out Park. <strong>The</strong><br />
memorial stands 6 feet<br />
8 inches tall by 3.5 feet<br />
wide and overlooks<br />
Lake Michigan.<br />
Marvin Showalter<br />
stated in his letter that<br />
he helped in getting<br />
this memorial erected.<br />
He wrote the poem<br />
below from his bed in<br />
Yokohama Hospital<br />
155th in December<br />
1950. It was the first<br />
and only poem he ever<br />
wrote.<br />
HELL ON EARTH<br />
by Marvin B. Showalter<br />
B Btry. 49th FA Bn, 7th I. D.<br />
Just below the Manchurian<br />
Border, Korea is the spot.<br />
Where we soldiers are doomed to spend our time, in the land that God forgot.<br />
Down with the snakes and lizards, down where a man gets blue, right in<br />
the middle of nowhere, and a million miles from you.<br />
We sweat, we freeze, and we shiver, its more than any man can stand, we<br />
aren’t supposed to be convicts, but defenders of our land.<br />
When we return to good ole USA, St. Peter will surely yell, they are<br />
soldiers from Korea (Frozen Chosin), they’ve spent their hitch in hell.<br />
(Thank you Marvin for photo, letter and poem. Great job.)<br />
Ohio Remembers<br />
We have a beautiful.<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Memorial here in<br />
Sandusky, OH at the<br />
County Court House, the<br />
county seat of Fairmont,<br />
OH.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tall center of the<br />
memorial is dedicated to<br />
the KIA’s of WWII. <strong>The</strong><br />
right side is dedicated to<br />
the Vietnam KIA’s.<br />
<strong>KWVA</strong> supports WWII<br />
Memorial in Washington<br />
Sherman Pratt <strong>KWVA</strong> National Judge Advocate, WWII and<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> <strong>War</strong> Veteran gave $2,500 <strong>KWVA</strong> National check to<br />
an official of <strong>The</strong> WWII Memorial Committee in Washington,<br />
DC.<br />
National President Harley Coon, Vincent Krepps <strong>Graybeards</strong><br />
Editor, Jack Cloman, <strong>KWVA</strong> Reunion Co-Chairman, Elliott<br />
Sortillo President ExpPOW Assn. also attended.<br />
<strong>Graybeards</strong> Copies<br />
<strong>The</strong> requests for extra <strong>The</strong> <strong>Graybeards</strong> to support printing of<br />
same was such a sucess, we will offer extra copies for every issue<br />
on a first-come first-serve basis. For future issues, if you wish to<br />
make sure your orders are filled, I must have advanced payment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Graybeards</strong> is a great tool for the chapters in New<br />
Membership and Tell America Programs. We request minimum<br />
orders of 5 at $1 donation per copy plus $3.95 postage.<br />
We can send up to 7 copies for $3.95 postage. For orders above<br />
7 copies or future issues, additional costs for postage is $3.95 for<br />
each increment of 7 plus $1 per copy.<br />
Example: if you wish to order a full year (7 copies each of 6<br />
issues) then a check for $65.70 and your request is<br />
needed.—Editor.<br />
(Thank you Jim Rusher for photos and letter. A great memorial<br />
and we would be proud to show the full view in a future issue.)<br />
<strong>KWVA</strong> Members and Friends<br />
Visit the <strong>KWVA</strong> web site at: HTTP://www.kwva.org<br />
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