The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association

Greater Cleveland Chapter of Ohio
and VFW Post 9693
European Theater of Operations (served. less than 6 months
in the U.S. Had letter of acceptance from 8th Army HQ to
serve in the 167th Photo Co. but transfer was denied.
We have a new cemetery about 50 miles south of
Cleveland, Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery. I am
chairman of the Public Information Center (a building where
we provide volunteers to help visitors). There is a MIA/POW
section with the flag on a smaller pole. In that area there is a
Memorial granite headstone with a name of a person killed in
Korea 1950 (MIA). Cemetery opened June 19, and dedicated
September 10th.
(Thank you Frank Aleksandrowicz for photos and letter. You
and your post are doing a great service for our Korean War
Veterans in your area. We and they are very grateful.)
Dennis M.Clogh, Mayor of Westlake, Ohio, presented a proclamation to
Joseph Faris and Frank Aleksandrowicz of VFW Post 9693. The proclamation
designates the observation of the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War
Also the commemoration of the war for the period of June 25, 2000 to
November 11, 2003. Aleksandrowicz is the post commander. Both are
members of the Greater Cleveland Area Chapter of the KWVA.
Winds of intermittent activity as well as a rain of severe force at times,
made this group of Korean War veterans into a mechanized color guard.
One car and this station wagon with Patricia O’Hara at the wheel passed in
review to any appreciative audience lining the streets of Vermillion, Ohio in
observance of the Wooly Bear Festival. Left to right: John Marinchek,
Arthur Becks, Frank Aleksandrowicz, Robert O’Hara and Joseph Faris.
As commander of VFW Post 9693 and Life member of
KWVA since the early days I do a lot of publicity and photography
relative to veterans of WWII, Korea and at times
Vietnam. I served with the 519th M.P. Battalion in Korea,
1950-51. As a reservist (inactive-individual). Was newspaper
photographer since 1941 when after a year of work I was
drafted and served in the Army where I was trained as an M.P.
and became a buck sergeant, squad leader, 1942-45 in
At the exhibit at Bay Village Library, three walls of photographs and art
(above) over a space of near 250 ft. tired the 4 gentlemen who needed a
rest: Lou Cassarino and Gordon Moellman, WWII Navy Vets, Nicholas
Nardi and Donald Henry, Naval veterans of the Korean War. The exhibit was
on display at the Bay Village Public Library for 3 weeks.
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