Special KWVA "W in Your Dream Vacation Fund-Raiser" Information ...

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May - June 2009
COVER: Kim Myung Jung, Gunsan City’s Korean National
Police Chief, expresses his excitement after a highspeed
taxi ride at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea,
March 4, 2009. Mr. Kim is participating in the base’s
Pilot for a Day program which is part of USFK’s Good
Neighbor Program. (U.S. Air Force photo by: Senior
Airman Angela Ruiz
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CONTENTS
Business
Thanks for Supporting The Graybeards ......................................................7
Election Results........................................................................................7
Minutes of KWVA Board Meeting..........................................................9
Ask the Secretary... ..........................................................................10
KWVA Bylaws Committee Project For 2009 ..................................12
Recruiting & Fundraising ..............................................................14
Official Membership Application ..................................................74
Features & Articles
The Commandant and the Cat...who/that saved me from the brig ..30
Children, Closure, and Korea..........................................................35
Finding a Friend..............................................................................52
92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion: Part V ............................68
Departments
From The President ..........................................................................3
The Editor’s Desk ............................................................................6
Tour News: Revist Korea ................................................................18
What I Missed the Most..................................................................23
Tell America ....................................................................................28
Korean War Veterans’ Mini-Reunions ............................................32
Chapter & Department News ........................................................36
Reunion Calendar............................................................................54
Monuments and Medals..................................................................56
Recon Missions ..............................................................................57
Remember this? ..............................................................................57
Feedback/Return Fire ....................................................................60
Book Review....................................................................................66
Last Call ..........................................................................................71
Welcome Aboard..............................................................................72
Members in the News ....................................................................76
From Our Chaplain ........................................................................79
News & Notes
Missing in Action From Korean War is Identified ................................7
Chapter 170 visits West Point ..................................................................8
Korean War Ace Col Harold E. Fischer passes away ............................9
General Walter L. Sharp Delivers Memorial Day Speech ....................11
A True American Hero ..........................................................................16
No soldier shall be left behind ..............................................................19
Memorial dedication to Lt. Baldomero Lopez ....................................20
Meet Jim Umeda ....................................................................................22
State of New Jersey honors Sgt. Espey ................................................24
T-6 Aircraft History ........................................................................24
Reunion of Basic Trainees at Camp Breckenridge, KY ................26
Registration: 2009 National Convention ........................................50
Doing something for Fred ..............................................................58
Ohio Road named after Korean War veterans ................................73
Statue of Walton H. Walker Planned ..............................................79
May – June 2009
The Graybeards