Happy Holidays - Korean War Veterans Association
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Members of CID 5 after marching in a parade in Millville, CA many years ago<br />
Municipal Airport. There were more than<br />
100 people on hand to greet him.<br />
The 30-year-old Mayer, a U.S. Army<br />
specialist and military police officer, was<br />
serving his third tour of duty in Iraq when<br />
he was injured.<br />
The photo and brief story can be<br />
accessed at http://www.redding.com/<br />
news/2008/aug/09/comrades-arms/<br />
Membership Number<br />
First two characters reflect<br />
membership type<br />
*************************************************5 Digit<br />
R012345 01/01/09<br />
JOHN J. JOHN<br />
12345 MAIN ST<br />
SMILEY NY 01234-5678<br />
DELIVERY POINT BARCODE<br />
The second article, which appeared in<br />
the 9 November 2008 issue, can be found at<br />
http://www.redding.com/news/2008/<br />
nov/09/camaraderie-on-display-at-veterans-parade/<br />
Thanks to Leroy G. Neuenfeld, 1476<br />
Pinon Avenue, Anderson, CA 96007, (530)<br />
365-5102, for submitting the article about<br />
Tolbert.<br />
1 County, 4 Vets, 2 DSCs<br />
Four soldiers from Siskiyou County, California, which borders on Oregon, were<br />
killed in the <strong>Korean</strong> <strong>War</strong>. Of the 4, 2 earned the Distinguished Service Cross.<br />
The four men prove that geography does not determine who earns awards. Heroes<br />
come from every location, urban, rural, metropolitan...<br />
For example, in the 1950s Siskiyou County was composed primarily of cattle ranches,<br />
gold mines, and timber mills. Its population in 1950 was only 30,733. Even today, it<br />
is not heavily populated, and approximately 20% of the workers in the county are still<br />
employed in agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, construction, and manufacturing.<br />
Siskiyou is the fifth largest county in California by area, but the projected 2010 population<br />
is only 49,500, roughly three times what it was 110 years ago (16,962). So, four<br />
deaths in the early 1950s had a major impact on the county.<br />
Obviously, residents of the county have not forgotten these four <strong>Korean</strong> <strong>War</strong> heroes—<br />
and no one else should either.<br />
Thanks to Neil McCain, Vice Commander of the Department of Oregon, for bringing<br />
this news to our attention. Reach him at (541) 660-6104 or neilmccain@clearwire.net.<br />
Check Your Mailing Label<br />
Membership Dues Expiration Date. The example<br />
shows a dues date of January 1st, 2009<br />
Check your name and address ( Apt./Bldg/Lot No.). Notify the Membership<br />
Chairman if you find an error. If yourJ zip code does not contain 9 digits<br />
(zip+4), your address is not correct according to the USPS. Contact your local<br />
Post Office for proper format.<br />
Important: If barcode<br />
does not<br />
extend across the<br />
full label, then<br />
your zip code<br />
does not have 9<br />
digits and your<br />
address is not<br />
complete according<br />
to the USPS.<br />
Contact your local<br />
Post Office for<br />
proper format.<br />
US Postal Service<br />
Above and Beyond<br />
the Call of Duty<br />
We often hear about the bad service<br />
mail carriers provide. But, they<br />
do some good things as well. Case in<br />
point? Consider this phone call the editor<br />
received on 12 November 2008.<br />
The conversation puzzled the editor<br />
at first when the caller asked, “Hi. Is<br />
this a publisher?”<br />
“One of our carriers<br />
just told me<br />
that the copy of<br />
your magazine he<br />
was supposed to<br />
deliver was<br />
incomplete.”<br />
“No,” said the<br />
editor. “It’s an editor.<br />
Is that close<br />
enough?”<br />
“Well, this is<br />
Mike, from the<br />
Cedar Rapids, Iowa<br />
Post office,” the<br />
caller announced.<br />
That got the editor’s<br />
attention.<br />
“One of our carriers just told me that<br />
the copy of your magazine he was supposed<br />
to deliver was incomplete.”<br />
In fact, he continued, “All that he<br />
had was the cover.”<br />
I listened patiently to the rest of the<br />
story.<br />
“Our carrier knows that Mr…. looks<br />
forward to each copy of the magazine,<br />
and that he will be really disappointed if<br />
that is all we deliver. Can you send a<br />
replacement?”<br />
Of course we can—and did. After all,<br />
this is not the first time we have heard<br />
about damaged copies of The<br />
Graybeards arriving in members’ mail<br />
boxes—or not arriving at all. This is the<br />
first time, however, that anyone from a<br />
post office has called us and expressed<br />
concern for a customer regarding the<br />
condition of a magazine.<br />
We commend “Mike” from the Cedar<br />
Rapids post office and the unnamed carrier<br />
who expressed dismay at the customer’s<br />
potential disappointment. That<br />
is postal service above and beyond the<br />
call of duty—and it gets our stamp of<br />
approval.<br />
Visit the <strong>Korean</strong> <strong>War</strong> <strong>Veterans</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> Website:<br />
www.KWVA.org<br />
57<br />
The Graybeards<br />
November – December 2008
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