Remembering Korean War 60 Years Later

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Reba said:
Lots of deaf people work for the Department of Defense and the other service departments as civil servants or contract employees in non-combatant roles.
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The Army base in Richmond has hired deaf in non combat roles in the past.
 
Reba said:
Lots of deaf people work for the Department of Defense and the other service departments as civil servants or contract employees in non-combatant roles.
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Oh really, I do interest to work at military service.

If I was hearing so I could go join military after high school and my father told me alot of thing about military, that's very interesting for sure.
 
60 years..wow.

My late grandfather and his brother fought the war. My grandfather came back home while his brother didn't. My dad was named after his deceased uncle.
 
My father served in the army during the Korean war. He maintained friendships with several people who immigrated here from Korea after the war.
 
shel90 said:
60 years..wow.

My late grandfather and his brother fought the war. My grandfather came back home while his brother didn't. My dad was named after his deceased uncle.
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My condolences and thanks to them.
 
Bottesini said:
My father served in the army during the Korean war. He maintained friendships with several people who immigrated here from Korea after the war.
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My thanks to your father for his service.
 
My father served in the Army during the Korean War. He wasn't on the front lines. He was in Japan and working with the Pacific Stars and Stripes. I still have the patches and pins he got from that. We also still have his uniforms. He contracted malaria while there and the Army fitted him with his first hearing aid.
 
KristinaB said:
My father served in the Army during the Korean War. He wasn't on the front lines. He was in Japan and working with the Pacific Stars and Stripes. I still have the patches and pins he got from that. We also still have his uniforms. He contracted malaria while there and the Army fitted him with his first hearing aid.
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I thank your father for his service.
 
I knew a lot of vets growing up in Florida. There was one man named Mr. Hicks that used to babysit me. Another man, Mr. Barber, a WWII - Korean War vet also babysat me and was like a grandfather to me. Mr. Barber never really talked much about the war, but Mr. Hicks did.


Mr. Hicks was a Korean War vet. He was a very nice man but he would tell me all the nitty gritty details about his experiences during the Korean War. I don't know why he told me ... it may have been because I asked him about it.

Mr. Hicks was in the Marines. He was shot 6 times in one battle and left in a ditch to die. In fact, he told me he died. He told me he could remember hovering over his body and watching the battle. Whether or not any of this is true, its what he told me (he showed me the scars where he was shot).

He was picked up by a passing Jeep and his body was used as a shield. He was shot an additional 3 times when someone noticed he gasped for air.

He told me that was what convinced him that God is real.
 
Reba said:
Lots of deaf people work for the Department of Defense and the other service departments as civil servants or contract employees in non-combatant roles.
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What about medical personnel that are Deaf and on other bases?
 
DGirl101 said:
What about medical personnel that are Deaf and on other bases?
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Most military hospitals employ many civilian medical staff members, which could definitely include deaf workers.
 
Reba said:
I'm glad that your family brought you here for us. :)
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it was actually my grandpa. He was a high-ranking government official for Korea and Japan (at that time - it was one Korea). He heard about upcoming communist revolution so he packed up and brought his family down to South. After the war - my dad was born. and then here I am. The detail on my grandpa's background is very limited since he passed away when my dad was a little boy due to cancer from heavy smoking.
 
Jiro said:
it was actually my grandpa. He was a high-ranking government official for Korea and Japan (at that time - it was one Korea). He heard about upcoming communist revolution so he packed up and brought his family down to South. After the war - my dad was born. and then here I am. The detail on my grandpa's background is very limited since he passed away when my dad was a little boy due to cancer from heavy smoking.
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Your grandpa was a wise man.
 
Steinhauer said:
I knew a lot of vets growing up in Florida. There was one man named Mr. Hicks that used to babysit me. Another man, Mr. Barber, a WWII - Korean War vet also babysat me and was like a grandfather to me. Mr. Barber never really talked much about the war, but Mr. Hicks did.


Mr. Hicks was a Korean War vet. He was a very nice man but he would tell me all the nitty gritty details about his experiences during the Korean War. I don't know why he told me ... it may have been because I asked him about it.

Mr. Hicks was in the Marines. He was shot 6 times in one battle and left in a ditch to die. In fact, he told me he died. He told me he could remember hovering over his body and watching the battle. Whether or not any of this is true, its what he told me (he showed me the scars where he was shot).

He was picked up by a passing Jeep and his body was used as a shield. He was shot an additional 3 times when someone noticed he gasped for air.

He told me that was what convinced him that God is real.
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Funny... my grandfather lost his faith during WWII, especially after he and his company walked through some of the concentration camps in France and Germany.

He certainly had a lot of interesting stories on Remembrance Day...
 
Jiro said:
it was actually my grandpa. He was a high-ranking government official for Korea and Japan (at that time - it was one Korea). He heard about upcoming communist revolution so he packed up and brought his family down to South. After the war - my dad was born. and then here I am. The detail on my grandpa's background is very limited since he passed away when my dad was a little boy due to cancer from heavy smoking.
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I was wondering how you guys escaped North Korea without the gritty details that Korean families usually retells to their children.
 
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