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Donald Duquette

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Donald Duquette was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1928. He was a professional photographer before joining the Army in 1947. Upon completing basic training in Kentucky, he served for the next year in the occupying forces in southern Japan. He was discharged from active duty and returned home to Massachusetts where he returned to civilian photography, but was  called backed to active duty in Korea as a reservist. During his service period, he was stationed in Pusan from late September 1950 to June 1951. He served as  a combat still photographer, and was present at many offensives while in Korea.  After he was discharged in July 1951, he got married and went to work for the phone company. He is proud of his service.

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First Impressions of Korea

Donald Duquette describes his first impressions of Korea arriving on a boat from Japan and his journey to join his division. He shares what he remembers about the scenery, which had not yet experienced destruction. He explains how he headed north in the cold.

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Typical Day as a Combat Photographer

Donald Duquette talks about what life was like as a combat photographer in the Korean War. He explains that most photographers were looking for action shots, but they took pictures of everything that was going on. He remembers that some shots were dangerous.

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A Famous Photograph

Donald Duquette discusses taking a photograph of John Allen (35th Infantry Division) going up a hill. This photograph, Donald Duquette's most famous, was published nationwide back in the United States. He shares the photo with the interviewer.

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Video Transcript

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my name is Donald Duquette I was born in the bath
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New Bedford Massachusetts in 1928
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and I went to Graham sku:
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in the town of bats well Hyannis Cape Cod Massachusetts
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a I went to high school at saint john’s but
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butter prep school in damage Massachusetts and I graduated in
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nineteen
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for the 6 after I graduated from high school
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I went to Northeastern University for
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but two semesters no
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is Northeastern University its in Boston just
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I studied
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general course it not the San and I didn’t care for too much there I was
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always
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want to be a photographer so I quit their and I were to
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talk preschool while in New Haven Connecticut
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it was the on the you ok University
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and I was there for about a year maybe with a salir
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you it was on the yield university campus
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okay it was a separate school it had nothing to do with you except being on a
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campus
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which I found very nice it was nice
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a town down there New Haven I knew quite a bit when I went there because I’ve
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my experience and a by really learned a lot yes
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were you able to develop
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experience yours profession
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yes tell well I opened up to you
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portrait studio here in Hyannis and I took pictures /a
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which I didn’t like to do babies a heated doing babies
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I didn’t like doing weddings I like doing portrait work
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and commercial ok you that’s my favorite
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yes bud because you have to
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that’s right near quest babies and weddings that’s where the money is
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you know more so than porter work how was
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just a call around that time we talking about
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late 1940s yes yes yeah I wasn’t out
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from from now are quite a bit differently
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when I was growing up in time the world only 8,000 inhabitants in the whole town
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now this forty eight thousand people in this town so it is quite a difference
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you’d walk down Main Street you know everybody could say hello and you know
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everybody that
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you passed it was that much for nice little
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the week on village so what happened what
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hog end of being a were
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well to be a veteran I was
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I with the career I want a career
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serving career who drafted
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no when I got outta for school
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I enlisted in the Army when was it
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this was in nineteen 27
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round there 47 mmm seen the returning veterans from World War two
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I really got a lot of them
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and that was my idea was to go in and
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server the country in and we’ll in you know it
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tail in the world war two work force you to
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right you were making money right
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not that much money I no es ser
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I just wanted it to be in the army you know no
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season well i i don’t know what that was about it was
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I I enjoy it you know and so I went and served in Japan
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occupation forces in Japan all ride
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you got basic basic training and right away trip to Japan
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would it the 40 Kentucky I can’t remember the name in the fourth where it
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was
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wish we could talk your was your special
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if no I just an infantryman
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to begin with like everyone else they are trained for in the tree
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and weird you
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from the state well I get I left from Boston Massachusetts and got sent
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for basic training you know and
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go through basic training and get sent to Japan
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left from California your on a troop ship
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with Japan good
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i cant at least a month I guess it was it was terrible on
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I think was either three or four weeks ago to your while
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you 14 your
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mayor what happened yours it was a slow ship by guest
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worship the Japan it was that
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was not a good trip you remembered
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their just that the sweeping candid
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conditions were too great that they would stack I think either three or four
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tiers high
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a lot of people get seasick was not nice I spend as much time
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on top upon a deck as I couldn’t have been done in the whole
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because the smell and just the closeness and everyone
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everybody’s or less
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the weather wasn’t a great maybe that’s why it took so long
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what was the reaction from you when you decide
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to join without being
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well they didn’t say it was not a good idea they didn’t say was a good I’d
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a bad idea they just went along with what I want to do
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wall Europe
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I have one sister I have one sister
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and no brothers I’m I had my father was a druggist
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a yet to drug stores in town here
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I was extended family
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so tocqueville well you
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right well it was pretty
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near the end of the war over there and you know it was kinda
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all-time oriental times I guess who is a
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nothing new like it is now a course was
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people with a wooden shoes and
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it was different to me you know it and I I enjoyed it
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there was no fighting at the time you know it with a strictly occupation
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ride know I was only there for your word
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the southern island cooker southern
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most violent in the town occur
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at that time I was assigned as a recall on
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a driver and the only thing that we did
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already substance was we went to the different
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coal mines like it should say just to see if there are any Japanese though
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you know in that in the mines that didn’t want it surrender to the american
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forces
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so that was kind of interesting with your Weiner
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anyway dangerous no not know
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in fact the before I left there even building
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coca-cola plants there so I would say you know it was the
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not dangerous whatsoever
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which it was twenty five dollars a month
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your I think that was the pay scale at that time
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I i’m not sure but I think it was that and there was nothing to spend money on
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anyways
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would were
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usually set but ever had on your your
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your I I was in his boy
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I maybe wins
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huge what do you do I did I spent I bought my mother
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he said a have China
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because because the japanese for made good
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China you know gonna wear what was the most interesting
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you just the difference in the in the
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in the way the people you know the japanese people had never seen or
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rentals
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in any numbers like that before analyst
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it was interesting I thought they would like americans but the turned out they
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did like amor
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which was pretty period
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I was not doing photography at that time anchor I was
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in this regard troops I mean in Japan your
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while I don’t know used to be
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I i kno I know even washoe
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yah interest
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everybody to talk your close to america
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never got the Tokyo no noble no
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it was mostly all in the south so that %um
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so there how did you end up
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okay a II was discharged from the Army
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I was only in for perhaps a year and a half
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most around nineteen 14
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forty you’re about forty nine right I’m
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and then I your had my studio
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and the sea can you times mixed up here
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a told you that I
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joint I tell you I join reserves no
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okay i join the up to you discharged i join the reserves right
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I back to kid came back to Cape Cod
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doing photography and I think it was in August
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love 1950 I get
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a male was Telegraph
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actually same to report to
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Boston Navy base I think it was
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that I was on my way to career
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I had forgotten that I was in the reserves
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so it’s quite a it was quieter truck to me to get that letter
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you morning no
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thing high school history no
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or never had a career before but after I get that letter
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I went a little bowker career a
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I learned that I didn’t want to call you I notice them
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yet right a but it was it was a shock
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so
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see what happened then I’m
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okay I get the notice to to report the Boston I mean base and then from there I
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would
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I forget the name in the camp in Kentucky
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but I with that can happen was very short time I was there we just
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with the rifle range by the rifles
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and then then I gets stuck good then I get the
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told I was going to camp stormin’
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in Washington state
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it was Washington State and that’s when I
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was being shipped out to career day
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yes yes now that was a very truck trip that time
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they must have the votes must be going a little faster them
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but than i’ve landed in the it wasn’t Tokyo wheel and I can’t remember
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up I think it was half a million
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was most that was guy was
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I get called I can’t recall in
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in August so it was
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the end of September i’ve landed in and Japan your
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and then from trippy and we took but they used to call a list
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he’s with the Japanese
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sailors on it and we went to Korea
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period landed in Putian your
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you remember the first well
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scenario feeling and a career when you’re right
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well yeah it kinda through it with sequester however there was very shallow
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at the time
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I think we had a week for the tide
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I’m not sure but it’s funny
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you could smell career for some reason really if you’ve heard that before
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Mary’s I don’t know maybe it was the kimchi I don’t know
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I but it was different you know maybe
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just coming off the boat I don’t know but thats
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that’s how it affected me the first crickets
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most you present absolutely disgusting but it was
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different
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so we got off the boat and right away you boarded trains
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and we went how was the scenery I mean
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for you everything invested everybody
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at that time no not not at that time I’ll was no devastation in Tucson at the
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time
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this was early 50s of no
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nothing happened not white not right we we landed no
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no but everyone was out all its soldiers around
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mean you know everyone is armed people you
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absolutely yes described see
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their of people all
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well like I said we read a wayward
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lined up and taken input on a train so it goes on I didn’t have much
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you know time see many things
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all there well from there we went to
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I think which take you in from taking who is when we started
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our hike North I was with the
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2050 vision
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I and yet get to my unit I hadn’t got to the twenty-fifth
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I forget exactly where they were in korea
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when I got there was very cool even though it was
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that time year was you know it it seem called me
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and I went to a year big
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CP 10 the big because that they had and I met my
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I’m at the officer the photo section I wasn’t
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in introduce myself and he said
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deserve it this was at night he said the just
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go over there next this sort of it was a when this does with a gasoline grip in
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all the time
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and so that was it that was my introduction to the
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was Cali for a section of the twenty-fifth Infantry Division
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yourself know they knew I was coming
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it the the new I was a replacement while
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I was replacement so what was your
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job description wore your side
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okay my job was to isn’t that you’re right
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yes my job was to go out within the whole division
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and just eight pitches action
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that was that was it and in that division
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with through three regiments we had the
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24-27 thirty-fifth regiments
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and also at later on with that Turkish
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Turks were there the turkish brigade
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they with the second ones that I state with over there the first regiment was
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the 24th regiment
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there was no all-black regiment was strange
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for you to use barrel taking pictures
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others well II
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to me it was a stranger in a I was my job a
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ahead you know had a pistol forty-five personal and
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I never used it and never use the personal and never shot anyone
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to scammers it
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I don’t think was strange no I mean you know if I ever heard
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try try try be driving a truck or if I was an MP criminal be turning on rival
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Anna no it was not stretch ever
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you the army for in the war
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never I never thought that all know
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a good thing about being a photographer then was what I left the company
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a your ways hang around with our correspondents
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thats that was a real good para Michael stay there
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I was always with correspondents and the correspondents would always get
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special treats but with special treatment to go to special
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meetings with the with all the press and
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in the g2 people would give them
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tell them what was going on where was going on and
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the correspondence with the take off in the Jeep and
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go where the action was that was about it and I found that very exciting
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it was really exciting and I met some good correspondents over there in fact
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this one assure you the picture Jim Pringle he was an associate
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Press photographer and are used to hang out with him most the time
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and I really I like him use a nice guy of
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their other word Justin one group for
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45 that you’d say you know
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different not so she repressed UPEI
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I all the different ok but you know all the different was agencies
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would be there how they behave
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I don’t know they were they were almost like a gee i mean the you know they were
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same GI ko the most of them except the New York Times
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correspondent you really had it made I guess all the other car sponsor a little
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chose him because he had a lovely equipment you know yet the best sleeping
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bag
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the best clothing the best typewriter everything about it was the best
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that was New York Times all private yeah
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yeah your army even provide an
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to the car’s front it’s no
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this is a picture if myself and and Jim Pringle
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are you I am in this
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I am in the center jim is to my right
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this really a question for you he’s the AP photographer that
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I hung out with my sometime
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forward I don’t remember
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soul whole dangerous was your mission you have to
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cool with the soldiers phone line yes
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tell you about kind of typical day though
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for cases we are you mission
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well there was a lot of walking around to begin with a
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we go down to company strength and that’s what
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strength to go out to take pictures so
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most photographers that I know of we’re always looking
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the action pitches everybody wanted to get a panic attack
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and there were very few of those over there but we took pictures of
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everything that they were everything that was going on whether it was
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if we were assigned to an eye to eye out for it we took pictures at the big
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artillery guns firing a if we were
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whatever was going on we took pictures of Israel amounted to
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so there are many of you to
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picture while lot
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I mean real yes while the fighting was going on yes
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years people were firing
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they’re shooting each other so I guess that was if you I call it dangerous I
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don’t know
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for the moment that you might be you
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I did they have one time the that really
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was upsetting was it was in
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February it was when we cross the Han River in
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the Chinese were shooting out over shows at are advancing troops
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people were over the river on this side of the river
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and I was a whole and artillery shells came really close
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everyone was in a whole and that lasted quite a few
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quite a long time yet we perhaps it was sunny
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course we were sending the same thing over them so
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but I finally stopped and troops got an small assault boats
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across the river and
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yet we stopped at gunpoint but took a picture of
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after that to you over john Allen who was with the thirty-fifth
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imagery in 2050 vision
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and it was a picture of him going up a hill annual
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instant outside of someone and
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that pitcher
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the picture published all over the world it was
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yes this is a picture for John Allen he was with the
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34 thirty-fifth regiment
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the over twenty fifty vision I he’s going up the hill and
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this is right outside of Suwon Korea in the 35th was on a
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is ready to advance up a hill inner
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and sOooo outsiders who want to engage with the enemy
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name is John Alan
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is from Pennsylvania wide is
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popular in papers all over the country and
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the New York Times at a year
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and the in there weekly send the
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magazine section yeah that’s they published a nap
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what made the pictures
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I don’t know what do you like to think it’s a good pitcher
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for me whole win this for
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more or less yet it was kinda follow me type thing you know
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and army your I know when I
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after I took this about three or four days after I take it
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a although it might stuff was sent to
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Japan to be developed and printed and from there was sent
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to the different news agencies or whoever want to use it
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and I remember the the information officer in my division to me that
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you go on the air in it seen this pitcher a
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in the in one of the offices in a great big blow up and he congratulated me on
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be one of the best pitchers word
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not you text no I
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what’s going on yet no I wasn’t
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now so you don’t have a copywriter absolutely not no
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who has cock the National Archives
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Department of Defense I was only in Korea for eleven months
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and then that it came to a ruling came down that hollow’s
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inactive reserves the recalled would be sent home
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and I got word to
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to leave and with
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it was in the end of May
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of 1951 one
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right I was only there from 50 51 dreamers you
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remember that they your I did remember that and I want to make sure that I got
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some other photos that I had taken
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so I went to out we had a van truck
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it was with iPhoto section I try to scrounge as many of my photos
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as I could and bring them with me homes for
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that so I get before it slammed I’m for Les Paul
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yes but herpes more money
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service right yes it was but I’d met you know
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some people over there that I really enjoyed and
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right which by the way home what’s the most typical
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memory or time your service
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as far as my job over there
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well I remember
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one-time connery it was it was really
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a lot of fighting there and I almost thought I would make it
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during that battle connery
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there was a same time it the was February
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first forever on February 6 this about
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and at the same time that the marines were
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at the reservoir you for them at the Rosebud same time period is that
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as when the chinese really came down on its
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it look like I was gonna make it we all felt that way
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were are all the different unit through
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trying to get south then there was only one or two roads to get South
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and trucks were disabled so what they do is they destroy the trucks
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and everything in it a lot supplies would destroy they didn’t want it
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Chinese forget the splice and it was quite a trip south
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and I remember that very well
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you right back for you
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I didn’t write too much now
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friends remembered rolled back well yeah I had a girlfriend but you know it
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very seldom that i right I was much a letter writer i’d
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I wrote my mother more than anyone I knew should worry
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you know router
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no while the guys kept let his pride in
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you know I have an address book that I wish I’d kept
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about that guys like that but I didn’t you I lost that somehow
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a good idea
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what is your for right image
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well it was kind of like a treeless landscape
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I don’t remember many trees you know it was mostly
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small scrubby things I think if occur at all
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they call it that in the morning combat
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I was impressed with your up
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Cup hammer yeah research Speed Graphic it was a new Skype camera
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creepy camera that today with you I just the use of small digital cameras
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was and how many pounds are it but we used to have
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it was for a bite five-inch negative that we have
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and I used the carrier in a pouco used to carry
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but will call film packs they were films that
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you have twelve to a pack you took a picture in the pole piece paper out
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and the next film which show up you know and
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henry give are exposed film
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runners that would bring it back to work for a second and it said it on the Japan
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to be developed
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komentar you always carry one just want
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yeah extra
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no north for cams
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when was enough to carry
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the all many soldiers carry their own care
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I didn’t know I never serve a so to the camera
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in any time I was there
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required to this was the first you with a walk
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you know people didn’t they were taking pictures that I know of
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war veterans that are so or
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days terrible all their
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maybe it all depends where that but where they were with the drive was you
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know I don’t know
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I know that I never saw an infantryman
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in a company size location
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with a hammer that seems to be reasonable
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this is should way was because it was
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not pick you know it was war maybe today they could because be a very small
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camera they could
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sticking a pocket but in those days the smallest camera believe would be a
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thirty five millimeter camera
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because that would be pretty tricky dick
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probably like that your Collingswood stick out to you know
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so no iight no II never maybe it was an hour
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I was always you could say I was always near the front lines
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of affect your life here
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well
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when I came home from the korean war are affected by my career in that there was
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no longer
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going to start rework
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well I get married and I started doing
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weddings again and in my spare time I first while I
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I had to have some money so I there was no money for are clearly on the Cape
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so I your it started doing photography
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weddings and you I I hated that
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so in the meantime I got married
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and started a family and I need my knees right
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I got a job with the telephone company and request that
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in tonight for a career
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so for you
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you for how to
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well like some good friends and you know it
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I enjoyed what I did over there I think I had a good time
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when I did I enjoy doing special
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moralist a you know I was on my own all the time
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nobody told me Ivan
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God takes a bit is that of it it’s about always said you know
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and what somebody call back take for a server
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ridgeway when he was there when general
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our make out the game
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to call me her to me because they know where is a portrait photographer I don’t
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know
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they call me back to take pictures of him where he was online
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my clock all the big shots
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try to pitch is over the offices
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in my division for the revision history
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those are things I didn’t do when I was out troops
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how was for you you like to have as good
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you like to have his picture taken I mean he’s probably at work it
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with them been any other general in history I
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in a Mac like I was told never to take a profile picture of my clock
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any and taylor’s of hope well
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Maryland marilyn maxwell in popup
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Marilyn backs she came with pop-up
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Maxwell she’s a blonde good looking girl
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GI’s like you you have a test not
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no I’m use a big big crowd people
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and you just take pictures of the stage in them
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features well as a bunch of retards they can purchase
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you know every unit has photographers and they’re all movie camera
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they the movie guys these to call movie guys in the
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that like me they called still for doctors
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we had you on speaker graphic here
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maybe I’m I don’t like it or not
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but that was you know that was just one day that was a
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look even walls
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you well you could say macarthur I guess
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make other ridgeway it but Ridgeway was a great general I mean he was a real
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I talk to you actually talk to me we yes
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just almost questions like you’re asking no
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are what do you think what’s going on you know things like that you know
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and it wasn’t maybe 10 to 15 minutes
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Brittany
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remember exactly where i said im
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I don’t remember exactly where Asian
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Press very but very impressed he’s the general were
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people think he will had to grenade ron is
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on his belt but he didn’t yet one grenade and also offers the
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package on its back on itself you can see it cultures
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he was he was a real general
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you never went back I don’t wanna go back now I’ve never be back now
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there I don’t think so
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well what would I see I wouldn’t say anything that look like it was when I
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was there
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to begin with I don’t think
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mmm I mean I I think promise always
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more more than the new york city
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mom more mmm
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what do you think is the legacy Warren
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all water
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I think the Korean people really like the American soldier
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I really believe that I mean every year they pay to
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for use over there and they put us up over their fetus
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I think they’re grateful to we did what we did
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Americans but I know up I think france
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I i’ve heard one I’m in the VFW and
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when the members the VFW said the French
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what’s a while would give them your dinner or something like that
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I’ve never have any other country doing with and creators this year after year
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after year
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you 320 for now what sixty years so amazing
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New York oh I think the all agree more veterans can look at Greer
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play I ok I help
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make real what it is today you know I think we all feel
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veterans anyway I hope that’s
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I hope that’s the way the Korean people think that goes to or
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I never personally got friendly with any Korean when I was over there
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the only Crean that I was friendly with was enough for you know we had
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Korean that I was doing the portrait is
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the generals he retorts the photos for me
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you know what I mean by retouching retired before and he was a
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capers haircuts and that’s the only Korean
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I was ever filled with any messages
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rations about the war
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experience I have a grandson now that
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did to two years in Iraq and when you’re in Afghanistan
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spent seven years in the service and the get out
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right now is packing just got he’s like a car
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and I’m very proud of him that he degraded you know
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I think every I think every child every
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ago kid should during a service for
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to three years of
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medoff
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yes
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okay thank you