The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association

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