Obit: George 'Steve' Morrison, 89; rear admiral flew combat missions Nov 29, 2008
Morrison flew combat missions during the last year of World War II and again during the Korean War. During his lengthy career, he worked on secret nuclear projects at Los Alamos, N.M., served as operations officer aboard the aircraft carrier Midway and commanded the fleet of ships in the Tonkin Gulf incident that led to the escalation of the war in Vietnam. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Korean War vets raise cash for nonexistent museum Nov 28, 2008
- A nonprofit group formed by Korean War veterans to construct a museum in Springfield has raised and spent more than $7 million over the last decade _ but only has a temporary facility and a vacant lot to show for it, according to a published report. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Korean War National Museum organization was funded largely by veterans who wanted to build a facility billed as a first-of-its-kind tribute to a war many call forgotten ... "The thing that concerns me is... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Commandos abseil onto Jewish centre Nov 28, 2008
Commandos abseil onto Bombay (Mumbai) Jewish Centre. Treat a friend at PizzaExpress. (Times Online)
Terrorist mother ship found Nov 28, 2008
Terrorist 'mothership' found - Times Online. Treat a friend at PizzaExpress. (Times Online)
Walter Sterling Strode, longtime Straub urologist, 1925-2008 Nov 28, 2008
He served as a corpsman in the Navy during World War II and as a surgeon in the Army during the Korean War. Strode served as chairman of the Urology Department at Straub and was director of the Kidney Stone Center of the Pacific. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Donald Frederick Bottcher Nov 28, 2008
He served in the Coast Guard during World War II and in the Air Force in the Korean War ... He served 22 years in the Army Air Forces and the Air Force, including in World War II and the Korean War. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
• South Korean train makes last trip to North Nov 28, 2008
A South Korean Army soldier controls as South Korean buses carrying tourists wait to head to North Korea city Kaesong from customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju near the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. North Korea will halt tours of its historic city of Kaesong and stop train service to and from South Korea on Friday because of what it said was Seoul's 'confrontational'... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Trains between Koreas stop, North restricts border Nov 28, 2008
Train service between the two Koreas was halted during the 1950-53 Korean War. The start of the regular freight train run last year was hailed as a milestone in reconciliation. (Reuters)
Obituaries for Friday, November 28, 2008 Nov 28, 2008
He was a corporal in the U.S. Army, where he served in the Korean War. During the war, he was injured and spent time in a hospital in Japan. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Korean cross-border train halted Nov 28, 2008
Rail lines between the two sides were first severed during the 1950-53 Korean War. No peace deal was signed, meaning that North and South Korea remain technically at war. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Pyongyang floats a border bluff Nov 27, 2008
They see North Korea as angling to freeze the South out of talks for a peace treaty in place of the armistice that ended the Korean War - an armistice that South Korea's former president Rhee Syngman denounced as a ruse to permanently divide the Korean Peninsula and refused to have a negotiator sign ... South Korea rightists, with long memories, will never forget that Kaesong was inside the South, below the 38th parallel, when the Korean War began. (Asia Times Online)
DEATHS FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2008 (631) Nov 27, 2008
A Marine, he served in World War II and the Korean War. He received the Purple Heart. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Dorothy E. Baker Nov 27, 2008
He served in the Marine Corps in the Korean War. He was a police officer for Nassau County, New York, for 24 years before moving to Gresham in 1990. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
P.S. 232 School Spotlight Nov 27, 2008
The veterans represented the United States Navy, Army, Marines, Coast Guard and Air Force, and includedcurrent service personnel from the war in Iraq and veterans from the Korean War, Vietnam War, first Gulf War and World War II. They, with musical accompaniment by intervention teacher Mr. Berndt, led the school in the Pledge of Allegiance and were then welcomed, saluted and presented with student-made thank you cards. Following the assembly, the veterans brought history into the classrooms and... (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Roland Newton Nov 27, 2008
Mr. Newton served in the United States Army during the Korean War and was later employed by the United States Postal Service for 26 years. During those 26 years, he met and married his wife, Hope. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Marine hailed as a hero after 58 years Nov 27, 2008
Hollingsworth, USMC (retired) was awarded the Bronze Star medal 58 years after his actions in the Korean War, which earned him the honor ... He led the way into a village to fight during the Korean War. (Florida Times-Union)
Many feared dead in air crash at Thai resort Nov 26, 2008
Treat a friend at PizzaExpress. Navigation - link to other main sections from here. (Yahoo News -- Thailand)
John D. Cenci, 75 Nov 26, 2008
Mr. Cenci served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, achieving the rank of corporal. His family founded Cenci s Bakery in 1957 and owned and operated the store until 2000. (Burlington Union, MA)
SKorean staffers to leave NKorea economic office Nov 26, 2008
The two Koreas fought the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce instead of a peace treaty, leaving the sides still technically at war. Their ties had significantly warmed following the first-ever summit of their leaders in 2000 but chilled again this year following Lee's election. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Star-Bulletin reporter killed on duty earns place of honor Nov 26, 2008
A Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter whose too-short career included covering the Korean War and being blacklisted by a Soviet literary magazine during the Cold War will have her name added to the Journalists Memorial in Washington, D.C. ... Came to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1950 and covered the Korean War from December 1952 to March 1953 ... " Her tough reporting from Korea before the war led a Soviet magazine to label her and seven other American reporters as "extra-gangsters of the pen" --... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
P-51 Mustang Nov 26, 2008
The Mustang saw action in the Korean War and was even used as a high performance racer after its war service. Foreign Mustangs. (Suite101.com)
Sportsbeat: From ballfields to battlefields Nov 26, 2008
Scott Brown spoke of those fighting in our present wars; Jim Kenefick related his own experiences in the Korean War and of two men in his platoon, one of whom received the Congressional Medal of Honor and another for whom the Medal of Honor was recommended; and the story was told of Bob Blakeney, local World War II hero who led 20 of his fellow POWs in an escape from a Nazi prison. After the war the hard-throwing right-hander pitched for Boston College. (Needham Tab, MA)
$7.5 Trillion?! The Ballooning Bailout Nov 26, 2008
The bailout will cost more than the total combined costs in today's dollars of the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the entire historical budget of NASA, including the moon landing, according to data compiled by Bianco Research. It remains to be seen whether the government's multipronged approach to bail out banks, stimulate spending and buy up mortgages will revive the economy, but as the tab continues to grow so does concern over where the government... (ABC News -- Business)
How big is big in bailout? Nov 26, 2008
- Korean War: Cost: $54 billion ... To review: The bailout has cost us more than the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the invasion of Iraq, the Vietnam War, the moon-landing program, NASA, the Korean War, the savings and loan crisis and the New Deal ALL PUT TOGETHER.. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Shipp: Chambliss win would be hollow victory for Georgia Nov 26, 2008
I think I injured them while I was guarding the Rhine River against Chinese Communists during the Korean War. Sorry, folks. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Gloomy PM threatens confidence: Costello Nov 26, 2008
Mr Costello said the terms of trade were now the best since the Korean War wool boom and unemployment was below the 5 per cent rate, which was once considered full employment. The budget update showed income tax collected from individuals would rise by $2 billion this financial year and inch up next year. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
New VA complex opens in Aspinwall Nov 26, 2008
"The first veteran I knew was my father, and the government broke its promise to him. In a way, I have been on my way to Washington ever since to get my father's bonus," said Mr. Specter, himself a veteran of the Korean War. He was in Aspinwall to preside at the official opening of the complex there -- a part of the consolidation of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, which has received some $295 million in federal funding since 2004. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
More of this story Nov 26, 2008
Instead of pursuing track, Briant became a flying midshipman and served during the Korean War. He returned to the University of California in 1953 to earn a mechanical engineering degree. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Korean industrial zone in spotlight amid tension Nov 26, 2008
Kaesong was born out of the goodwill that arose following a dramatic summit in 2000 between the leaders of the divided Koreas, a meeting that helped reduce - though not erase - decades of distrust following the 1950-53 Korean War. For North Korea, the complex is also part of a sporadic experimentation with limited economic reforms aimed at improving livelihoods after its economy collapsed in the 1990s amid a devastating famine and official mismanagement. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
North Korea suspends trains to South Nov 25, 2008
Trains resumed crossing the two-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone in May 2007, more than 50 years after the end of the Korean War. South Korea's Unification Ministry issued a statement of "deep regret" over the decision, saying the North Korean move would violate agreements reached concerning Kaesong. (CNN -- International)
North Korea to halt cross-border contacts with South Nov 25, 2008
During the three-year Korean War, control of Kaesong - in the heart of the peninsula - was traded back and forth as the front shifted. When fighting stopped in 1953, Kaesong fell just north of the border. (Boston Globe)
Obituaries for 11/12/08 (22) Nov 25, 2008
He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He retired from Service Distributor gas station and was a member of the Disabled American Veterans. (Anson Record, NC)
Brown's giving legacy lives on Nov 25, 2008
Among them was Elmore Sanders, a Korean War veteran, who said he grew up as a friend of the Godfather of Soul and carried a photo in his wallet to prove it. He said it was worth waiting for the free turkey. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Henry Miller (1933-2008) (2) Nov 25, 2008
He graduated from Aplington High School in 1952 and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Mr. Miller was employed as a line foreman for Cornbelt Power throughout his career, retiring in 1991. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
North Korea threatens to cut links with South Nov 25, 2008
It was the first such service between the two Koreas since the 1950-53 Korean War. But the train ran mostly empty since most factory owners in Kaesong preferred to use trucks. (International Herald Tribune)
Smith, Rourke, Eastwood are the drama kings Nov 25, 2008
Gran Torino Starring: Clint Eastwood, Cory Hardrict, Geraldine Hughes, Dreama Walker, Brian Haley Director: Clint Eastwood Story: Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a prejudiced Korean War veteran who bonds with an immigrant Asian neighbor over his classic car, a 1972 Gran Torino. Worth seeing. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Latest pictures of Kim Jong Il released Nov 25, 2008
See a special performance of Joseph with The Times. Navigation - link to other main sections from here. (Times Online)
George Inman (37) Nov 24, 2008
He spent four years in active duty in the Korean War. He and his brother, Jesse O. Inman, were partners in Inmans Red for more than 50 years. (Elizabethtown Bladen Journal, NC)
The GOP's crush on Sarah Palin Nov 24, 2008
1) In the Korean War, the DMZ was approximately 250 miles wide with an ocean on both sides ... There was no way we were ever going to ivade N.V. anymore than we didn t invade China in the Korean War. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Guest Comment: The War of 1848 may yet be lost (1) Nov 24, 2008
He was a public school teacher, administrator, former member of the Continental School board, and a Korean War veteran and Minute Man. The views expressed are the writer s own and do not necessarily reflect those of this newspaper. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
David Goodbread: Back Home Nov 24, 2008
Mr. Goodbread was born in the desert of New Mexico during the Korean War. His father, James, was a photographer in the Army and had spent some time in Korea with Gen. Douglas MacArthur. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Bush pushed on Korea peace treaty Nov 24, 2008
Then, in an unusual departure from the normal pleasantries at such events, Mr Roh said: "I might be wrong. I think I did not hear President Bush mention the declaration to end the Korean War just now. Did you say so, President Bush?" ... "I can't make it any more clear, Mr President. We look forward to the day when we can end the Korean War. That will happen when Kim Jong-il verifiably gets rid of his weapons programmes and his weapons," Mr Bush said, bringing the exchange to an end. (Yahoo News -- South Korea)
TIMELINE: The major moments in the life of Harvey Milk Nov 24, 2008
He kept his homosexuality a secret throughout college and into his stint in the Korean War. In a New York closet: Milk was discharged from the Navy at age 25 and spent the next 15 years in Manhattan bouncing between jobs (from insurance salesman to Wall Street research analyst) and mercurial boyfriends. (USA Today)
Report: NKorea Serious About Dec. 1 Shutdown Nov 24, 2008
The two Koreas fought the bloody 1950-53 Korean War that ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the divided peninsula still technically at war. Connect to this TIME Story. (Time.com)
More Top Stories Asia Pacific Headlines Nov 24, 2008
The two former foes in the 1950-1953 Korean War have recently increased military cooperation amid expanding economic ties. They aim to reduce tensions in the Yellow Sea, where Chinese vessels engage in illegal fishing, and also safeguard maritime trade there. (Yahoo! Asia News)
The Long Road To 'Milk' Nov 23, 2008
1972: Harvey Bernard Milk - native of New York's Long Island (born in 1930), high school football player, Korean War veteran, former insurance salesman, high school teacher and Wall Street researcher, and onetime Barry Goldwater supporter - moves to San Francisco and opens a camera store. Milk had recognized his homosexuality as a teenager. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Local vets remember time in service (5) Nov 23, 2008
They are both veterans of the Korean War. Hines was a combat engineer in North Korea where he helped build bridges and roads for the troops to use. (Russellville News Democrat Leader, KY)
Pride of place: Serious about giving Nov 22, 2008
In addition to Bible college, he s been trained as a barber, worked as a housing contractor and served in the Army during the Korean War. His time in the service still holds emotional turmoil for him. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Bennie Durham Jr. Nov 22, 2008
He served in the Korean War as a member of the U.S. Air Force. After his service, his career was in general aviation and commercial airlines working for Braniff Airlines for 16 years. (Madison County Record, AL)
Veterans Day ceremonies thank those who've served Nov 22, 2008
Teacher and Army National Guard member Bruce Cunningham remembered his father, a POW in the Korean War, his grandfathers, both veterans and a fellow soldier of his whose life was lost while overseas. He wore his Army fatigues to the ceremony. (Kentland Newton County Enterprise, IN)
Veterans Remembered for Sacrifice Nov 21, 2008
Twenty-nine local veterans were honored Tuesday, Nov. 11, for their service and sacrifice during World War II and the Korean War. Each veteran, including some who are deceased, were recognized at a Veterans Day program held at the Warrenton Elks Lodge. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Teenager murdered for writing love letter Nov 21, 2008
Get 20% off your bill at Pizza Express. Navigation - link to other main sections from here. (Times Online)
Saugus state delegation announce free nicotine patches for veterans Nov 21, 2008
During World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, it was standard practice for soldiers to receive cigarettes in their rations. As a result of this and other factors that elevate addiction risks, veterans are disproportionately affected by smoking-related illnesses, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Saugus Advertiser, MA)
Oscars countdown Nov 20, 2008
One should not rule out Clint Eastwood either, who is said to give a commanding performance as a Korean war veteran in Gran Turino - his second film in a typically busy year. Leonardo DiCaprio might merit a nomination for Revolutionary Road, while Will Smith's latest drama Seven Pounds may see him land a third best actor nod. (BBC News -- Americas)
Choctaw County honors Veterans Nov 20, 2008
Carruba said when he was growing up it was Armistice Day but that was changed in 1954 after the Korean War. "The eleventh hour of the eleventh month on the eleventh day war of all wars was over," said Carruba. (Choctaw Plaindealer, MS)
LETTERS: NCT, Nov. 19, 2008 Nov 20, 2008
HotJobs Local Search. Old-fashioned community activation. (North County Times)
Special Veterans Day, anniversary program held at Marlin's First Presbyterian Church Nov 20, 2008
The Korean War refers to a period of conflict between north and South Korea regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953 ... Following the Korean War he remained in the service and was sent to Vietnam where he was once again wounded twice and received two purple hearts. (Marlin Democrat, TX)
News : Sokaogon Chippewa honor veterans past and present Nov 20, 2008
A traditional feast of venison and wild rice inside the Mole Lake conference center brought comfort to the hearts and minds of the tribal veterans in attendance, spanning World War II, Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm and the War in Iraq. ADVERTISEMENT. (Forest Republican, WI)
US can learn a tune from Korea's past catastrophe Nov 20, 2008
Business groups such as Daewoo, Hyundai, LG and Samsung are credited with raising the nation from the ashes of the Korean War into the heights of the 13 biggest economies. Not bad at all - until you consider the dark side of an economy monopolised by a handful of omnipotent, politically connected powers. (Business Report, South Africa)
North and South Koreans find cause for unity: Japan Nov 19, 2008
Despite the 1950-53 Korean War that killed millions and decades of animosity, there was little dispute between a South Korean group that visited Pyongyang last week and their North Korean hosts, as they agreed Japan's colonial rule still casts a shadow over the peninsula. The two Koreas have been split since Japan's defeat in World War Two ended its 1910-1945 colonial rule. (Reuters)
West Liberty Avenue won't be the same Nov 19, 2008
He served as an infantryman in the Korean War. He then spent more than 40 years with Norfolk & Western Railway Co., mostly working as a gandy dancer, nailing down rail tracks. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
World Is Turning Korean First, Then Japanese Nov 19, 2008
Business groups like Daewoo, Hyundai, LG and Samsung are credited with raising the nation from the ashes of the Korean War into the heights of the 13 biggest economies. Not bad at all. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Remains of soldier returned home -- 60 years after his death Nov 19, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas -- For nearly 60 years a Central Texas soldier who fought in the Korean war was listed as killed in action ... It was late November 1950, the first year of the Korean War. (KHOU.com, TX)
World War II veteran decorates clocks for wounded servicemen Nov 19, 2008
On this day, DuPuis is accompanied to the veterans hospital by Frank Drogo, past DAV commander and a Navy Seal in the Korean War who is bringing 16 electric razors to the patients in the wards. There are certain patients on blood thinners who can t use regular razors. (Braintree Forum, MA)
Honoring those who served Nov 18, 2008
"I enjoyed the talk," said Malcolm Hall, a retired veteran of the Korean War, before adding that, "[Veterans Day] is a time to reflect on things. A time to think about trying to keep our country free." His wife sat by him. "Our daughter Amy served also," she said, "she was in the Navy." "I enjoyed it also," said Tom Cameron, a veteran of the Army Air Corps in World War II, and the self-described oldest member of the VFW. Meanwhile, Amici discussed his post's efforts to help the troops. (Souderton Independent, PA)
