Earl A. House

0:00my name is earl house i was born in

0:02baltimore maryland large the 30th 1931

0:06my mother worked for a department store

0:09downtown Baltimore a father worked for a

0:12company called credit court and seal

0:13they made machinery for coca-cola Pepsi

0:17Cola stuff like that they also made tops

0:22for the bottles when I was growing up I

0:26lived in east baltimore then we moved to

0:29West Baltimore that we moved in North

0:31Baltimore we live n she moved to

0:34Parkville parkville maryland which is

0:36one of the thing here and i went to

0:39school at the other two schools the

0:42other place I lived I went to school and

0:44I was in the fourth grade and I failed I

0:48was in the sixth grade I failed I wasn’t

0:51pay attention to the teacher which I do

0:52now I do it up very much and my mother

0:56and father took me out of that school

0:58put me in vocational school uh-huh I

1:00went to the wilbur wright general

1:03vocational school in Baltimore City

1:05mm-hmm but living in the county I had to

1:09pay a tuition because it’s a city school

1:12so what I did I live with my grandmother

1:16in South Baltimore so I could go to

1:19school which is up the road i graduated

1:22in the eighth grade from the eighth

1:25grade and then I was and went to high

1:27school or what the high school was in a

1:29third week of high school I said he’d

1:32enough said enough I got up and walked

1:33out never went back when was that I quit

1:36high school in nineteen forty eight 48

1:38so what did what were you doing when the

1:41criminal broke up I was in a neighbor

1:43reserve I’ll bake Great Lakes Illinois

1:45as we went for two weeks summer

1:48encampment and when the name when two

1:51korean war broke out and we came back

1:54when a train I always take I took a

1:56pencil and put on the paper where a fix

1:59it inside the paper out on our way to

2:01Korea but we did I didn’t go to Korea

2:05then I went back to the neighbor went

2:07back home went to the neighbors

2:09on weekends but they took our regular

2:12daily personnel for world war two and

2:15they ship them overseas we had never

2:18deserts teaching us knew I didn’t like

2:21it anymore I wanted the real McCoy burn

2:23at the real thing no weren’t the real

2:25person mm-hmm so I said I’m going to go

2:28into another branch of service you want

2:31at all ok I was working downtown I went

2:36to the Coast Guard and I took the Coast

2:38Guard written test I passed the written

2:40test a failed two physical too many

2:43cavities oh I am I have something else

2:45now so I didn’t pass so I walked across

2:49the street to the air force without a

2:52high school diploma I went to the third

2:55page of the sub detest I could not do

2:58the math right I couldn’t figure out it

2:59had to figure it out how to do it in

3:01algebra I did not make it

3:04so I got my papers

3:06put them together walked from here to

3:09that door

3:10and I went in the army army takes

3:13anybody they took me they took me I went in the

3:15army I enlisted I got sworn in on a one

3:20day 1 30 p.m. on saturday December the

3:2430th 1950 at four-thirty and afternoon i

3:30was involved in an appeal accident where

3:33it put me in Fort Meade hospital for one

3:35week I was all puffed demise pumped up I

3:38lost some teeth which I later got a

3:40partial mm-hmm he had to one week in

3:42hospital on what I reported to Fort

3:45Meade stated Fort Meade got uniforms

3:48needles everything else testing blood

3:51tests take you what they did is

3:53there were pushed for time they gave us

3:55a piece of glass and you suck your

3:58finger and you put your finger on the

3:59glass you just patch someone else i get

4:01your blood type so when did you leave

4:03for korea we didn’t live freely we had

4:06to go take back what we are going to

4:09take basic training at Camp Breckinridge

4:10Kentucky and that was january through

4:16may of nineteen fifty-one so i always

4:18say we left basically turning around

4:20beta third

4:21of 51 and on the twenty-third about 51

4:24we were a troopship go on the weight of

4:27receipt safaris farias and you went to

4:30Japan or went to to pay in first we

4:33docked at night time are we got to Tokyo

4:36Yokohama at night time we couldn’t dock

4:38until next morning so we talked and a

4:40lotus / no buses took us to camp tricked

4:43all over campus rape was the first cat

4:46the yellow patch the big yellow patch of

4:49Lord smokestacks everything we stayed

4:52there probably three days they took it

4:55to the rifle range because he issued us

4:57rifles will we left California we had to

5:00clean the rifles but born overseas clean

5:03the rifles and then camp Drake took a

5:06stone rifle range gave us five shots I

5:08got three bull’s-eyes out of fire so I

5:11was honest qualified how long did you

5:13stay when did you leave for korea I was

5:1519 years old still how old normal how long did

5:19you stay in Japan expand that we love we

5:21left Rick about three days later and

5:23went down to Sasebo to a replacement

5:25center they gave us a pass we went into

5:28into into sat in the town of Sasebo

5:31first time in a foreign country but on

5:35the way down on the train from Yokohama

5:37to Sasebo we had change in our pocket

5:40they’re probably millionaires

5:42hae and we threw pennies off the back of

5:44the train you know if I couldn’t trick

5:46we got decisive oh we stayed there baby

5:48maybe a week and then they personally

5:52took us down to the pier put us on a

5:55Japanese luxury liner and we slept on a

5:58mat about that long it remind you to con

6:01you put it in front you how to wipe your

6:02feet off one and we stayed on there and

6:04detectives overnight the Pusan busan

6:06busan we got a Poussin fade when when

6:10did you all right uh wrap around a 70

6:14thought saying something like a it’s on

6:16here edwin is oh go to George all 19

6:221950 1951 50 51 yeah right we stayed

6:26well we got off the ship they gave us

6:29breakfast we had SOS another bundle to

6:32SOS

6:33is creamed chipped beef on toast we had

6:36cold cereal hot coffee they put us into

6:39a compound that are all around the

6:42compound not to keep us going out but to

6:44keep people coming in okay before you

6:48left for Korea have you heard about

6:51career before or did you honey we’re at

6:54real motel I was in the neighbor be

6:56served and they said the cream worked at

6:59the North Korea’s attacked in South

7:01Korea that’s the first I’ve heard about

7:02it hmm and we had nothing we did enough

7:04about it to remind everyone else so what

7:07was your feeling when you came to know

7:09that you have to go to a place where you

7:12never heard of it and you have to fight

7:14for our new people that you never be you

7:17know what I knew I knew when I enlisted

7:19in the army I knew I was aware i do

7:22outside come here I knew I was gonna go

7:24to create what was your feeling that you

7:26have to fight this excitement I guess

7:27excited I going to Korea you were

7:29excited yeah in a way the way I don’t

7:31wait go into a foreign country here

7:32because I or any other touch up and bid

7:35to when I was a kid was canada that’s as

7:38far as we got but back getting it back

7:40then you can strive across the border

7:42and no no papers were needed now you

7:44know you need papers today and passports

7:47up like all we have the identification

7:49court mmm but we are we all knew we were

7:53going to go to Korea when we finished

7:55basic training because we got a company

7:57formation I think it was raining I think

7:59it was raining senator was stuff and the

8:03company commander gave out the orders

8:05and he said for east on everybody he

8:09called a hd- a career he said hatred is

8:12not supposed to say that I saw what we

8:14do we’re going to create but so many

8:15guys stayed in Japan they need go to

8:19create they picked up out for maybe

8:21secretary or something like that who’s

8:23he had the brains to do this look but

8:25then we got to crib um we sort of

8:29excitement died off what we found out

8:32when we went to replacement center the

8:357th division replacement center in nth

8:37Catalan Deuce and a half two and Hampton

8:39army trucks

8:40we were issued three rounds of four

8:43rounds to put the m1 and they we were

8:46told there were snipers in the area so

8:48um what was your specialty and what unit

8:55that you were in a daily specialty was a

8:57rifleman infantry infantry when I Jenna

9:01I was assigned to Company B Company B

9:04first Battalion 31st infantry regiment

9:07of the 7th Infantry Division after a

9:11month or two months in that company they

9:16had a formation and they need a

9:18following ad to volunteer for the 30

9:20caliber machine gun so I raised by hand

9:23I carried a steel pot I carried a pack

9:27and I carried two containers a 30

9:29caliber evident one in each hand plus a

9:31carbine I had a carbine rifle m1 I lost

9:35that went to someone else and then we

9:38stayed we went to different location we

9:41take up on the front line yet and then

9:44one day we went to this very large Hill

9:47where in the 190 Valley so after you

9:55arrived in the Sun moose on jun 19 5191

10:00yeah what happened did you go right into

10:03the 38th parallel arianna now whatever

10:07we stay we took the train and one of the

10:10chin shine and then they trucked us to

10:13the subdivision replacement center and

10:14we stayed there and then we know

10:17eventually we got went up in the company

10:19we do eventually took us a couple you

10:21beat and we stayed here baby we’re

10:24shootin no not notice above as but you

10:27said goose on no it’s above them above

10:31chinch on it’s above shin chon dudes it

10:33wasn’t at the 38th parallel yet I know

10:35what do you remember you’re the the name

10:37old though uniface little bit no one new

10:40Campton and wondering

10:41just an area okay yep we have Attica

10:44permitir we were in soviet guards ward

10:46around us you so north oak shoots under

10:48the chin chun yeah but once we got there

10:52and then we got today signs of

10:54scientific company and then eventually

10:57we went up on a large hill we stand on

11:00that large Hill for 30 days we did not

11:04go forward we didn’t go back but while

11:07there our artillery was firing over iron

11:11hill but hitting the back of the hill

11:13they call it a short round and he we

11:15heard explosions to hitting the back of

11:17our hill in order to go take a shower we

11:21had to go all the way back down the hill

11:23again it’s like when his roof of this

11:24building go down the hill and come back

11:27up again and walk back up like I said we

11:29stay here 30 days we saw a couple of

11:32army tanks get knocked out American

11:34tanks get knocked out and about four or

11:39five miles in front of us we saw for

11:42airplane for or Air Force planes but

11:45powers come down and dive and bomb the

11:48fourth we came down one up it rolled

11:50over what about delegate got hit that

11:52hit okay so who was the enemy there

11:55North Koreans or technology North

11:57Koreans no degree of ransom that they

11:59had in front of us was old balding pork

12:04chop hill honey get the fort’s he’ll

12:05kill Old Baldy was in front of us they

12:07raped at eight they bombed it raked it

12:09shell to everything everything to it but

12:11they still cannot got us thinking Bank

12:13goddess yeah and you engage in combat

12:16everything now we want to gaze you

12:17combat at all about that not that 30

12:20days no at the end of that point I just

12:23turned 20 years old and we went into

12:26enemy territory we won up one hill and

12:28down one we want we must have walked ten

12:31miles on the thought is all to blow away

12:33we found he got the one hill and we

12:36stated we went with California’s they

12:38don’t touch anything there was bodies

12:40laying there black boys and white boys

12:44of the 24th Infantry Division had to

12:47patch on or we’re

12:49great registration had picked them up

12:51yet and they might in the North Koreans

12:54North Koreans are that they’re real

12:56American American American American GIs

12:58American GIs American GI so what

13:01happened it was located a note that we

13:05do you see any dead moister end no but

13:08you said that after the US Air Force

13:11bombed that area you ran up there and

13:13you find the American so I say that was

13:15one area we went to another area we were

13:17always hated I was one area here Oh

13:19bodies over here one every second we

13:21have to another area of an eval young

13:22but we got to that one Hill and we took

13:26we took that hill over we set up

13:29defensive positions it’s a t-bone

13:32there’s a t-bone like Tesla t-bone yeah

13:34machine gun went down desk corner the

13:373.5 rocket lots of went to this corner

13:39and I was I was like I was back here so

13:42I was back in here we had a trench that

13:44we stay we dug in and we’ve dug down

13:46deeper so we could stay in that trench

13:49and one thirty in the morning if they

13:53did get all the bodies out of there they

13:55picked them up talking about they took

13:57the watch and rings I’ll put him in the

13:58back they got them all at one-thirty the

14:01next morning we can hit by mortar fire

14:04no one got killed GIS are done a yellow

14:07hou okay Bobby okay billion we were okay

14:11backorder 22 you hear that we heard

14:14Louise with her gunfire and the two men

14:18who had the 30 caliber machine gun they

14:21got overrun and they come running past

14:23us I said what happened they said they

14:25overrun our position and we started

14:27shooting I had one hangar date and I’ll

14:31pull the pin let it go away did not

14:34force it to where I thought the epic so

14:36I kill anybody I do not know main

14:38upstairs does I don’t know I don’t know

14:40or was there any moment that you or

14:43really close to enemies are you guys

14:46able to consume you couldn’t say you

14:48interesting the noise or always the only

14:50one who’s gone far Woods wizard by a

14:52blink and we kept shooting until someone

14:56says move back so dick but to move back

14:59and we kept moving back to we’re back

15:01with the company

15:03he we are like custard we were in a area

15:06we were all together shooting people say

15:10what were you doing behind a tree I said

15:12I was used up for protection I was

15:14behind a tree next to another guy and

15:17the other guy said im hit im hit he’s

15:20later I found that he later died when I

15:22one time then I got hit and then someone

15:26yelled out did these wounded over the

15:29hill and they got like eight or nine I

15:31was off to hill we went down this hill

15:33and and we went into a bunker but the

15:37enemies had me so she does mm-hmm I did

15:39not see the enemy oh I saw was drugged

15:43whole service in Korea during the pro i

15:46saw i saw him later when i drove the

15:48Jeep I saw my prisoners I saw us on to

15:50his friends yeah i saw that’s all when

15:52did you leave Korea when do you depart

15:54from clear I left Korea April the twenty

16:02first of april nineteen fifty-two i came

16:06back home again so you’ve been there

16:09more like two years a year less than a

16:12year last thing i got there in june june

16:15he won’t have one he really loved it in

16:17april but with us being on the line we

16:23got four points we’re in a bottle aerial

16:25because when emptied a hill and after i

16:29got hit went to the hospital came back

16:31with a back in combat again morning and

16:36then we eventually want we went to the

16:38events and went to watch on reservoir we

16:40left there and we came back to off a

16:44couple very well I think ng we had

16:46Thanksgiving their Thanksgiving there we

16:49had Thanksgiving dinner to there and

16:51another guy another guy I met all the

16:54ways I in headquarters company they had

16:57chow and like a total fuck our company

17:00didn’t have challenged holding two or

17:01three o’clock in the afternoon so we

17:04went into his place in that chat we want

17:05to our place that you had to Clifford

17:07dinners three days after thanksgiving

17:101951 we went back on the line

17:14we were here and the enemy was dependent

17:16on that’s how close we were to it every

17:19day someone got killed every day we lost

17:23somebody could you describe the most

17:26dangerous moment in your service when I

17:28got it when I was in in combat shooting

17:31the carbine and never knowing what to

17:34expect we shoot a rake towards the enemy

17:37there was a fire at the end of the hill

17:38oh let’s start of day I’m gonna but I

17:41couldn’t have see the enemy somebody got

17:44so many guys probably did I did not I

17:45didn’t I didn’t see the enemy until I

17:48start driving and cheap in October or

17:51November of 51 when I came back from the

17:55hospital in October I started trying to

17:57achieve and then we picked up prisoners

18:00and I saw him do we have them in the

18:02chief when were you hit where I like I

18:04hit my left shoulder in my left shoulder

18:07a hole that size of dime and when I got

18:09hit and the medics went to get our guys

18:13went to get two medics it wouldn’t come

18:15up and get us because we kept getting

18:16smaller on fire from the enemy so they

18:19brought two types up two times monday

18:22came up goddess and they say can you

18:25walk us I can walk I must a waffle here

18:27haunted Pentagon and I’ll walk back when

18:30I got back to where the aid station was

18:33one of the guys that took basic training

18:35with come running up to him he says

18:38where are you hit I said left shoulder

18:40he said you going to Japan and then he

18:43yelled out he says we’re hoping that

18:44another boy we took basic with I said

18:47he’s still up on the hill he never got a

18:49stretch he never got a scratch hmm

18:51because I met him if I came back the

18:53hospital did you get medal for that one

18:56I got it from our poor poor what I got a

18:59purple but it never bothered me only in

19:03the rain when he got damp it bothered me

19:05and then years later about 10 years ago

19:09I’m getting gasoline in my car and I

19:13doubled up in pain like I had a real bad

19:15side to side my side hurt you told me in

19:19the beginning of this interview that you

19:20were excited to know that you are what

19:22is going to work

19:23you have a lineman for Korea I was a

19:25excited I had not scared out of me like

19:29scared and so will you I mean just tell

19:32me about your overall thought about the

19:35war and especially the Korean War where

19:37why we were there I think we were there

19:39for one reason to stop them and they

19:41kept emphasizing this the whole time we

19:45took basic and get decree on the ship

19:48and it took free wearier you were ever a

19:51communist where you’re very calming I

19:53saw you know what the word was anything

19:55what the word was and then I found out

19:57what what we did we stopped it we

20:01stopped a right there in Korea but you

20:04know okay we don’t play we aren’t later

20:06went because I did something right I did

20:08come back I feel sorry for the guys that

20:11didn’t come back yeah you get upset

20:13about some time you know you think about

20:14it oh yeah yeah what was the most

20:18difficult difficult moments in your

20:20service can you give me one or two I had

20:27I had something happen at watch I’m I’m

20:30not trying to forget about that

20:33something happening watch on reservoir

20:35Roy reservoir at watchung we were up on

20:39the hill we took pokes from one side to

20:42the other side what is the naval watch

20:45on Reservoir righteous and watch on ok

20:47nine what time ok and so one fired a

20:50rifle and up till cut off or I started

20:52crying and shivering shaking of property

20:54up again and I stayed with the exact

20:57that night in that area stay with that

21:00area I started a high 26 and I think

21:02it’s caught he caught up to me what did

21:05you do did you pray or what wobble no I

21:07guess I did for Ellen what I did I can’t

21:09remember but I just broke the outbreak

21:11that’s what crying yeah all right well

21:13the guy shot the right for all

21:14accidental you want you that the enemy

21:16he just the one own safety he pulled the

21:18trigger on a hot dog for undercover

21:20operator but we’re not broke they got me

21:24off the line it gave me any cheap

21:26driving charge also I trying to cheat

21:27but every time the first song called me

21:32it was a new

21:34first lieutenant out of West Point who

21:37wanted to see the front line I said oh

21:39she’s real bullets up there I want to

21:41see the front line I took him up to

21:43frontline and what did he sold a

21:46frontline I say he’s up there maybe an

21:48hour and i sat in the cheap he went up

21:51the hill went with the position when I

21:53can I came back don’t we go back now

21:54thank you point Mike was there was

21:57always artillery coming in plus with the

22:02guerrillas were shooting at us

22:04everyone’s when they shoot us and we had

22:06that that was that plain cold they have

22:11a plane fly over drop bombs I can’t take

22:13his name they had a name for him I can’t

22:16think of that but the most it was it

22:20wasn’t scary what happened what would

22:22say you know what was it puts up with

22:24something to happen I was worsening my

22:27cheap someone else’s worst in their

22:29truck in this stream you got to

22:33visualize it’s a stream a bank a bridge

22:36and up on a hill the 3rd battalion of

22:42the 31st infantry regiment were giving

22:44out medals and they played the national

22:47anthem as far as you can see in out here

22:50we came out of the word we went to

22:52rezone arms the guy everybody came out

22:54of the water the guys want to bridge the

22:56tried to travel when going that fast

22:57they stop they got out and they saluted

22:59to until the national anthem stopped and

23:01then when it stopped and went back to

23:03worsen cheap again Orson cheap and with

23:05rags where we could find we support

23:08loyal one there to keep it shiny don’t

23:10know it shout me too crazy we want to

23:12give you shiny up and then I went back

23:16to the company area the company sent me

23:19to get water dr. back to water point I

23:22went back to get water that’s five to

23:24secure his point I want about to give

23:26water I had a trailer I had a full water

23:29and I’m going back up the MV stop mini

23:31said where are you going is it to the

23:3331st we got snipers shooting at that

23:36vehicles that old thanks a lot so I

23:39called I call my I called the motor

23:41motor pool swords I say sorry

23:44I got sniper standard shooting at us

23:46he’s all come down so he drove the Jeep

23:50I dm1 safety all figure on the trigger

23:53and ignorant side by side poof they’re

23:55dead or more shoot up on feet up yeah i

23:57think i was curious other than getting

23:59hit that was what i was hard I’m so

24:01sniper was more fearful than just they

24:05want any in massive combat right they

24:08wanted us actually we did I didn’t do no

24:10hand-to-hand I need no none of that no

24:12it was one so we got once we kept moving

24:14back on that hill and we kept firing is

24:17who we got it we eat a couple about

24:19least eight or nine guys got hit and we

24:22went up going the hospital in Japan we

24:25lost 15 listed men my company say my

24:29company commander put on one hell of a

24:31fight he musta did hand-to-hand so you

24:34continue to drive the gym after that I

24:37truly achieved from October the end of

24:39October until I rotated home yep and

24:42when I was in the 10 we’re in reserve in

24:46ng and he they said the first saw would

24:49show up oh another second lieutenant or

24:51firstly time what’s the deal in front of

24:53line but that wasn’t it or you want to

24:55go home my see ya is it morrow morning

24:58turn all your clothes I taught him in

24:59that light turn all your clothes and

25:01turn your rifle one toward everything

25:03again you’re carving and you get on with

25:06it when they come to pick you up killing

25:08truck and go home that’s okay what did

25:10you feel oh it exciting I’m very excited

25:13but when I gotta you excited to be in

25:16Korea yeah i did cuz i be accorded real

25:19now excited by didna how our career but

25:22every should we’ll both of them he had

25:24all that career this division went to

25:28pork chop hill the division lost men so

25:34many men they went down to regiment

25:36strength the regiment lost so many men

25:39they went down the company strengthen

25:41the company lost any money he went down

25:43to battery strength they got hit very

25:46very very hard was i was stationed at

25:50Camp picked Virginia we got all the

25:53information

25:54the army paper with every army times

25:56what we were reading as we were lucky to

25:58get out of there hmm except your

26:01departure okay what was the most

26:03rewarding moments author are your

26:05service when done we love to pain when

26:09they threw confetti itís and singing no

26:12California here we come to band playing

26:14California here we come I got seasick

26:18going over of a sea sick for three days

26:20but coming back we went over a small

26:23ship we come back on a big ship to

26:25sniper pick truth like a queen mary it

26:28did more they didn’t let much and then

26:30roll them well I did say go ahead ice

26:31cream ice cream nice powder some ice

26:35cream no shakes hot coffee Bobby pie

26:40like mom made we took us 14 days to get

26:47to Seattle and when we got to Seattle

26:52Seattle Washington we were going to talk

26:55on the starboard side we’re going to

26:58talk on the porch they could make up

26:59their mind that everybody’s running back

27:01the ship’s going like this it’s going

27:03back forth like this all the people

27:04running back and forth we found it doc

27:07many a soldier ran down a gangplank he

27:09kissed us a to grant us all that the

27:13histogram good glad to get home what was

27:16the living condition what living

27:19condition doing over there yeah horrible

27:22living in a pup tent we slept in a pup

27:25tent or we slip in a tent like mash head

27:29like animal mash yep and many time we

27:33took a bath either steel pot many a time

27:36you shaved in it too many a time I think

27:39we shade list yeah what any weekend with

27:41whipped cream and there at cremated yeah

27:42we shave list at one point had kat young

27:50someone said that start a fire in the

27:55stove that was in the tent i did not

27:59know that someone had already put

28:02something in there

28:03and I took a seat rashi can of gasoline

28:06in there and I dumped it and he got me

28:09it went down my arm like my uniform and

28:11they rushed me outside I number went to

28:13the H I just pressed it all up Russell

28:15off yeah but forget about it but we went

28:21swimming with the yellow green orange

28:23pink frogs frogs outside frogs and 190

28:32had movies and I missed the truck and I

28:36walked I must have walked I must have

28:40walked a mile with a steel rifle I mean

28:43a steel helmet and a rifle no am edition

28:45by myself pitch black pitch black is

28:50would you walk us out what are you crazy

28:52it could be anybody out there to get you

28:54I thought I had a wife I hit him with

28:55the rifle I couldn’t I couldn’t shoot

28:57out an end no I’m mission we went to the

28:59movies but later they brought the movies

29:03to our area where did you watch movie

29:08during the therapy i watch movies

29:10hollywood movie watch movies yeah how it

29:12would maybe shall we watch them yeah how

29:14simply had a movie which on the end up

29:16there on a projector in i’ll give you

29:17projector 16 millimeter but i like a

29:19picked a great big thing if partly we

29:21had movies and just like it in in the

29:24mash sometimes a film broke or it was

29:27pornero raining and attended a tent and

29:32then okemos then another 10 sometimes it

29:35cameras would leap the word would come

29:36down on top of this we gotta straighten

29:38out my back watching a movie how many

29:41movies did you watch always couple of

29:43min reserved yeah real cow Moos how was

29:45your throat I girls and Williams we

29:47haven’t worn a girl where we were one of

29:49the girls all know what was your

29:50favorite movie do you remember know of

29:55him yeah

29:57so when you come back what people say to

30:02you glad to see me come back but go back

30:06to Korea when I got a hit and I was in

30:09hospital in Japan I could not break with

30:13this hand or this you know I had to take

30:15I had to go through therapy and walk

30:18steps of my hands my orange will hurt so

30:20bad both arms are hurt so bad I director

30:24us wrote my next-door neighbor a letter

30:26and telling mrs. right I was wounded in

30:30action in order to tell my mother my

30:34letter got there first the army talker

30:37have got their second hmm my brother was

30:40at the school where we both went playing

30:43baseball they went up and got him said

30:45you weren’t home your mother’s upset

30:47your brother’s has hit me was just

30:49wounded in action that’s when they found

30:51out as I was wounded in action in Korea

30:55and then when we were in seattle

30:59washington everybody got out of the post

31:02except us we flew home from seattle but

31:07that plane had engine trouble so we had

31:10to wait overnight then we flew home the

31:14next day but we flew from seattle to

31:18denver colorado we all got off the plane

31:20they had to feel it stuff like that

31:22there was civilian people in there and

31:25they want to know what we did where we

31:27came from I think he probably bought his

31:30drinks was I I would know many cases

31:33like I am now older over and we involved

31:37with the time we had the same two story

31:39had the same flight crew from Seattle to

31:43Denver to Chicago we lost a flight crew

31:45and we lost our power and then we flew

31:49from Chicago to palomar to bwi and then

31:54the army picked us up and am I picked us

31:57up on a bus and they took us into Fort

31:59Meade and we were in this barracks and I

32:02said I’m hungry and the other guys are

32:05hungry he said we go again formation

32:07also care how we do it

32:09you’re too sergeant your but you’re too

32:11sergeant I have a PFC let’s get cracking

32:14let’s go for this informational march

32:16down the mess hall at Fort Meade

32:19Maryland fed 5,000 men and a meal mm-hmm

32:24that’s a big that mess hall was we went

32:27to that chow line but a trade they saw

32:29her ribbon saw the pats all the stripes

32:31they do they had to go over there too

32:34but eventually that mess all came down

32:37but years later in the when I got I got

32:42married know and my next-door neighbor I

32:46was telling about Fort Meade Maryland

32:48and the consolidated missile he wanted

32:51to see it so I took it down before he

32:54was in the service in World War two so I

32:56took it down to see the mess hall and

32:58ce4 to eat while I 40 well we got to

33:00Fort Meade finished dinner or finished

33:03breakfast went back process it takes

33:05forever this has got to be done not

33:08gonna be but the most important thing is

33:11when I got back from Korea had to am

33:14oasis what is that with is that’s your

33:17job qualification for what you could do

33:20and then 1745 was infantry 43-45 was

33:25truck driver and I was asked at that

33:28time by this sergeant do you want to go

33:31to Fort Meyers Virginia or you will

33:34become a truck to us what’s at Fort

33:36Myers for jenny’s an infantry at that

33:38time I did not know it was the unknown I

33:41did not know I didn’t didn’t know it had

33:43been an honor to go dere well at Fort

33:46Dix New Jersey the personnel called me

33:50up yo for sergeant that’s what I’ll take

33:52it no you come yeah I’d to go talk to

33:54the guy in personnel and he says you’re

33:58up for sergeant and I made on 86 I’m 86

34:03I said not get me out of here I went to

34:06Iceland to country poisoning for one

34:10year and we pulled guard to be up there

34:13recorded the ammo dump the radio towers

34:17and the fuel depot for the US

34:19horse yeah so military service was big

34:23part of your whole life yeah yeah yeah

34:25so like you’re like you’re me I liked

34:27although I just like it why did I stay I

34:29don’t know thank you or the back side

34:31kick in rear end what do you think the

34:34impact of korean war upon your life

34:38they’re probably maybe you told me and I

34:41guess scared the daylights out of me Oh

34:43John Wayne I was not John going to do

34:47anything a lot of i’m not i’m not doing

34:49what was secured we were all secured we

34:50were all anywhere to get hit anybody get

34:52killed and I mean could you be honest

34:57with me about when you were scared in

35:00the foreign country you’ve never heard

35:01of before what I mean how did you feel

35:04about it why do you have to sacrifice I

35:07just wanted to get away from everybody

35:11in the family to prove I could do

35:13something that I wasn’t free in there

35:17and their eyes but I was afraid in their

35:20eyes it’s always great but what we went

35:23we might we were kids we were 19 years

35:25old 18 years old 17 years old even 16

35:29years old and they found them kids and

35:31they sent it back to a mother and father

35:34they lied about their age and went into

35:36service they were in our company we have

35:38in our company and they got an answer my

35:41q ese why did they do that you said that

35:47because of the war with iraq and

35:50afghanistan i think the Korean War

35:52veterans now getting Moshe get letter I

35:55get wherever on that I’m in the bathroom

35:57a guy companies all 733 he said thank

35:59you would do what you did wish I get

36:01done work yeah why do you think that the

36:04Korean War has been called forgotten why

36:08while I know why was it so unpopular

36:11selfish fine I’ll tell you right now

36:13okay we went to our army show at Largo

36:17one year they introduced they said

36:20anybody here world war one wins what’s

36:22that yep army show when we’re go a place

36:26called Margo but when was that oh that’s

36:28a

36:29like what the gathering except we were

36:31association that risen no it was about

36:36about 15 5 15 years ago okay but 15

36:40years we went to all worship all men no

36:43women old men they introduced they said

36:46well anybody here world war one world

36:48war two vets on this kid they skipped

36:52better a top while our color guard

36:57captain went up to the guy and let the

36:59microphone and say you forgot the Korean

37:02War veterans plus we have a little Honor

37:05winner sitting with us that was a

37:08colonel sitter I think was Colonel

37:11sitters it was my honor winner from from

37:14from Korea he got a standing ovation we

37:17got a standing ovation we got standing

37:19ovations I mean my question is why was

37:21it so unpopular so that they have to

37:25stay act like we weave shoulda been

37:28there we should have been there we

37:29should not winter I mean there are many

37:31many word that you shouldn’t be there

37:33yeah we take the Americans you know

37:35today about that that fed non the guys

37:37going AWOL diff Monica will you do that

37:39we we raise that right hand we wanted a

37:42service within we were folded them we

37:44went with the army to Korea we refer to

37:47help people as we did that’s what the

37:49army does help people right I don’t kill

37:51people for or my question is why was it

37:54so unpopular why people didn’t recognize

37:57you why because i went two for you I

38:02don’t know we got a lot of respect in

38:06his career what they did for us was

38:10wonderful wonderful why can’t I gave him

38:12a TED start but our Glenn’s thought we

38:14loved it they treat us like we were gods

38:17they were could be trained but the

38:20interpreters were wonderful they were

38:21wonderful they stayed right with us I

38:24don’t think it’s pumpable tio sacrifice

38:26Americans young Americans men and women

38:30but I thirty three thousand men we lost

38:32I still say the mountains we sold the

38:36hills we saw I made a comment somewhere

38:39up here to gie gie up ever

38:41we’re not ever funny no never funny have

38:44you ever imagined a young excited boy

38:48okay come to came to Korea without

38:53knowing anything about Korea and you

38:56were scared yeah excited you’re excited

39:00did not want to happen to us and then

39:03you are excited to depart Korea a little

39:06in your head gather yeah and when you

39:08revisit Korea yep what a dramatic we’re

39:13amazed we were made we’re all be Jenny

39:15trees trees grants buildings what no

39:18building over there everything was black

39:20and I should not say this but to me when

39:27we were in Korea they remind you of

39:31desolate horrible place that they went

39:36through when they lost the people and

39:39the North Korean what the North Korean

39:41Chinese did to you people it’s horrible

39:43I mean thousands and thousands of people

39:45little kid why do you kill a little kid

39:48who can I go dude on to you mm-hmm but

39:50they showed pictures of that on top we I

39:53seen our history channel CTI two hands

39:56tied behind her back shot in the head or

39:58one I want the hostilities hostilities

40:00the wind between to stop between South

40:03Korea and North Korea let it be one

40:05career but the family for the North

40:07visit to the Fed near south south of the

40:08door we went to pay me in John and we

40:14were told what to do no gestures and

40:18what he said this is to his career

40:20that’s not in North Korea this is North

40:22Korea we did the same thing we could

40:24just we didn’t do it then to do it now

40:28we went into that barracks that what and

40:3150 others went around the table the

40:35interpret says you are now that corporal

40:38said you are now in North Korea us was

40:41first time we went back in North Korea

40:43since nineteen fifty-one