Sep/Oct 2008 - Korean War Veterans Association

Individual members always cover their own expenses in order
to make sure that all funds raised in the community stay in the
community.
Dick Malsack, 146 Anglewood Drive, Crossville, TN 38558
(931) 707-7292, kaslam2001@yahoo.com
312 ANTIETAM [MD]
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett presented a certificate of appreciation
to three officers of Chapter 312 for their service to our country.
The presentation was made Aug. 28 in the Sixth District
office in Hagerstown to Les Bishop, Secretary; Ned Renner,
Commander and Wayne Winebrenner, 1st Vice Commander.
We conducted our first fundraiser recently at a local mall over
a two-day period. It was successful. We realized a considerable
amount.
Les Bishop, Secretary, P. O. Box 868
Funkstown, MD 21734
Members of CID 312 at fundraising event (L-R) Les Bishop, Pete Callas,
Bob Eader
Bob Eader, CID
312’s Fundraiser
Chairman (L), and
Secretary Les
Bishop (C), talk to
a veteran and
donor at fundraising
event (R)
CID 312’s “Fundraising Team” (L-R) Wayne Winebrenner, Bob Sandburg,
Bob Eader, Lou Surratt, Pete Callas, Leon Geibel
MONUMENTS from page 35
Seong Shin Ra of Seoul and Madison—an accomplished coloratura
soprano—entertained the audience by singing a capella,
“Danny Boy” and the traditional Korean ballad “Arirrang.”
The program concluded with laying of ceremonial wreaths by
Senior Boy Scouts of Plover Troop 201, prayers by Chaplain
Sharon Pieper, the firing of volleys and the sounding of “TAPS”
by trumpeter Bob Kitto.
Greater Plover Memorial Post No. 10262 furnishes the official
Memorial Honor Guard and Firing Detail for the annual ceremonies
held each June.
The program concluded, the audience visited the island
memorial, and many enjoyed lunch served in the park shelter by
the Portage County Detachment of the Marine Corps League.
On Sunday, 7 June 2009 there will be a special Rededication
of the Memorial, celebrating the completion of the major reconstruction
project, estimated to cost $330,000.
Cliff Borden, Jr., 4304 Drexel Ave.
Madison, WI 53716
The Greatest Korea Veterans Memorial
By Louis Dechert
The Republic of Korea today is itself a memorial to American and
Korean sacrifices. The inscription is written not in stone, but on living
hearts in our flesh and blood. As such, that is the Supreme
Korean War Veterans Memorial.
For this reason, if no other, we must take every measure, devise
and carry out every plan, and work until we can work no longer to
build up, then build up again, and then again, our Mutual Alliance.
Should our Alliance fail, grow gray, then feeble, go on life support,
and finally disappear, then I suggest to you that something of our
mutual National bodies will have died. Something which has energized
us to accomplish the best there is through the past few years
will have been excised.
And, just as surely as our physical bodies will perish when the
heart is ripped from them, the very essence of mutual accomplishment
shall leave us, orphans as it were, to try to make our individual
ways—rather than the Allied way—in a hostile world.
Korea is great not because the USA is great; the USA is better, or
great, because Korea is great. That is the kind of relationships we
have between ourselves and the ROK, my fellow veterans of Korea.
We must preserve, defend, and ever build higher our relationship.
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The Graybeards
September – October 2008