Edmund Reel

0:00um Edmund Leon Reel a born january
0:05thirty first nineteen twenty-nine and
0:13where you want Morefield West Virginia
0:16morefield West Virginia my family at
0:28the time add that my father and my
0:31mother yes I’m the oldest son of three
0:36and my mother had one which is a halfbrother
0:40brother you made it to start out with I
0:49went up to the first school went to was
0:51Buckley school B U C K L E Y West Virginia
0:55West Virginia then from there was
0:59transferred to Luxembourg and they’re
1:03from Luxembourg then I went to morefield
1:06high school and I left the morefield
1:09high school and joined the army I joined
1:14the army on the 25th day of September
1:201947 I was 18 no no it’s 17 you did and
1:36I wanted my father to sign for me so I
1:40can go in then which I’d been on the
1:42tail end of World War two so you
1:44enlisted yes why did you enlist what I
1:48listened well because at that time they
1:52wasn’t drafted so uh drafting know they
2:00are drafting calling people into them
2:03right yes so before you are being
2:07drafted you want to volunteer oh yes
2:09okay
2:12yes so you joined the army where did you
2:15get the basic military training for next
2:17New Jersey well hold on tell me about
2:20that well ice in one of the last cycles
2:24of World War two basic training there he
2:27you learn everything about field
2:30exercises combat training etc etc at
2:39that time I was a rifleman
2:43yes sir not at that time and then after
2:52after a basic training guess where I’m
2:57not bad where Korea I know about before
3:01we talking about Korea where did you go
3:04if you go to Washington’s seattle or
3:06seattle washington to to leave for korea
3:09where visual no this was some we got on
3:12a ship to go to Europe and they convert
3:17a ship and sander stand correct no not
3:28sent back to get that was my first now
3:30this is before the war when the 1948 if
3:38then they’re in a career in 1948 oh yes
3:46oh yeah yes and our troops when they
3:54shipped all the troops out of Korea
3:57which was in December of 1948 then I
4:03went to Japan and I was in Japan then
4:07until march of 1950 and then I was
4:11shipped back to the states here waiting
4:15for discharge no no I was waiting for be
4:20discharged when my enlistment was up
4:22was a
4:25then the war broke out before got
4:27discharged then I went back to Korea so
4:31tell me about this did you know anything
4:33about Korea before you went to oh yes oh
4:38and I know anything about Korea no no
4:42and never heard of no not till they said
4:47was going to Korea first time so when
4:50you arrived in Korea where did you go
4:53arrived in Incheon
4:57best port was on a big sign what was your
5:03first impression of all Korea well not
5:06expect that you know I got my mind saying what
5:11hell over got into now but once we got
5:14once we got in it and got a range and
5:18what having all yeah where did you
5:20stationed I’m a station right out of a
5:26seoul yeah cause the 38th parallel yeah but I
5:33guarded the 38th parallel for about six
5:36weeks oh you go yo ya welcome down the
5:40mountains look across over into North
5:43Korean say they’re Russians over there
5:45yeah all you are able to see what grins
5:48oh yeah that close oh yeah yeah wings up
5:52on the 38 they’re up on the mountain
5:56there and you with binoculars and
5:58whatever and looking up a cross over
6:02there say there were Russians over there
6:04foursomes do oh yeah oh yeah pretty
6:09girls right pretty girls the women
6:15was purdy yeah I guess I had their wives
6:18over there her girlfriends but they were
6:20pretty because he was doing it wasn’t
6:23during the world no no it’s a four-door
6:26were you able to tell that is going to
6:30be completely changing from that peace period
6:34to the war well what other war at that
6:42time not really no but I told him in dig
6:47them foxholes on without train wave it
6:49back here using them well we should stop
6:59having it cook huts and I got a little
7:03remembrance right there that’s where my
7:07lip was cut split open there why well
7:10when I told one of my men to get up to
7:12Bogart to parallel his door and the
7:17second time when I told him to get up he
7:19jumped up off his fist and bust it there
7:21I can stick my tongue out yeah well
7:25there is Cornish between US soldiers and
7:29old friends or the Russians no no not at
7:32that time though oh yeah it’s before we
7:37left there things started getting a
7:39little hot prior to that I was up in
7:47camp Drum New York which is known now
7:50and then Wendy this all broke out Angela
7:58so they took us back to Fort Devens
8:00Massachusetts or was wait to finish my
8:03over three months so there we do little
8:07extra what we call refresher training
8:10and of course I guess they might as well tell the
8:14truth we stayed mostly drunk because I
8:20think probably most of the boys same
8:24thing I did well they told us where was
8:27it going then oh yeah and so we stayed
8:36practically drunk and so goes we I did I
8:40thought well
8:42I won’t fun to go my won’t be coming
8:47back alive anyway if I come back so
8:50finally they even notice all true cattle
8:54cars there clear across whole United States to
8:58camp Stoneman California and they’re
9:01reserved for dare to and still drunk and
9:06get on the ship oh yes can’t remember
9:11that I don’t never getting on this ship
9:13but one month it was august the
9:19twenty-fifth nineteen fifty yeah that’s
9:26a ship went over a dinner but went into
9:29Busan I think about 14 days I there yeah
9:39thing yes terrible seasick but that when
9:49the first time I’ve seasick well I was
9:58in apple orchard there North Koreans at
10:02posters all the way back to Pusan there
10:06and we got there then therefore dare to
10:13then we went into battle yeah tell me
10:18about your second arrival in Korea in
10:23like one year or two years right a year
10:26to how do you feel that you were in the
10:30battlefield and you may lose your life
10:32yes well first battles end was a battle
10:37of the bowlin alley just short way some
10:40boots on and of course we lost
10:45everything that we hadn’t we fought our
10:49way out of her it was known as a bola
10:51valley was the battle we fought our way
10:54out there
10:55lost everything we had and then we came
10:58back to Busan to that voucher is there
11:01for a couple days and reformed up again
11:04and then we proceeded north and all the
11:09way if this soon all was nothing aired
11:12on the rubble all the way we fought all
11:16the way certain battles well and so we
11:22got to bond yang and there they thought
11:29the war was over a matter of fact they
11:30told us was we gotta clean equipment up
11:37yeah how’d you know somebody else must
11:40told you there and but then I think
11:47probably I think it was probably the
11:4929th of no 29th of October young and
12:02they call the Santos was gonna move on
12:05up and set up a line and wait for you
12:08troops come with your leave us and go
12:10home well this didn’t happen we serve
12:16for day or two what did you see Chinese
12:20soldier at the time around town young
12:22Ward vicinity of that area oh you never
12:26know but did you hear that Chinese
12:29soldier or they’re already know you
12:31never know but you know what October
12:34fourth Chinese across across the Yalu
12:37River only October and US intelligence
12:43actually missed it no no but anyway you
12:52wish you knew right I yes yes
13:00and I knew in the side of a guns hit us
13:03that morning about two o’clock in the
13:05morning I didn’t know what the hell read
13:08it was with all the vehicles and what
13:09have you they just bowed us to kingdom
13:12come yes yes how many can you describe
13:18him yeah they must been five six hundred
13:22thousand so what the same bad what God
13:27that thing but they was they were like
13:30flies i think what i have done had it oh
13:37i thought i’ve done had it my life was
13:41gone I figured they went they were just
13:48up in the shoes Gillis but they didn’t
13:53thank God we with some of the first ones
13:59to be captured and they were kind of
14:02with the rifles up in the air fine and
14:08of course to me what went through my
14:11mind which I use it tell my story in the
14:14school it was just like sin Oh glory
14:20come on to and down and I got it I mean
14:24it in my head I’m not going home ever go
14:29home again and I just forgot about my
14:31loved ones and what have you and today I
14:36think that is one thing that I’ve able
14:43to survive all the war deals that it was
14:46but through because of that Edwin and
14:51with God with might estimate right here
14:55because it’s one of thought it was
14:58having is going to happen to me tell you
15:00about the day that you will capture new
15:02above the waves it waves an unsung
15:05counting it’s where we were at and of
15:09course I was captured there
15:12and then on some one’s own on song
15:17that’s where we were set up that and
15:20that’s where I was captured at weird a
15:22lot of those capture what wasn’t dead
15:24and then that eating what was that was
15:30that morning then eating is rather than
15:35afternoon late they know yes you love
15:40him yeah it was terrible to have to do
15:43that but whether you got about 5,000 to
15:46come right at you what you gonna do I
15:48don’t know where the other two soldiers
15:50went here I am just a soldier here with
15:535,000 enemy in front of me what are you
15:55going to do and then after his capture
16:01they marched us to a building and of
16:09course they didn’t allow us into doing
16:11we sit outside beside this building in a
16:14goal and and there then to learn eating
16:22then they marched myself and the other
16:27two GIS away but there was two South
16:32Korean soldiers that was captured with
16:35me but they took them away from him
16:36eating so as I said to started getting
16:40dark or dusk as we say they marched just
16:44down the road little piece up into a
16:46pine thicket and there there was some
16:49more of the individuals and yeah
16:55American soldiers and then they had a
17:02great big tub of sweet potatoes and then
17:08they start now we’re going to feed you
17:11and then we’re going to march you to the
17:14rear the one my buddies who was with me
17:16he was wounded so we got rice bag it was
17:22big rice bags and we made a stretcher
17:24and I carry one day of the stretcher
17:27every night cause we marched at night
17:29and slept in the daytime and then as we
17:37like I said and the second night out or
17:42the third night this leg gear starts
17:46swelling on me and I didn’t know why so
17:51I pulled up the pants and all and I seen
17:54here that I’ve been wounded by shrapnel
17:56in his knee no no I’ve been scared the
18:00bad didn’t know it wasn’t really that
18:02bad you know but I would did in a much
18:05acts where they kept us out the one
18:07today I kept my steel helmet and I would
18:11heat water in it and bathe my knee and
18:15like say each night we marched for about
18:1830 nights and to where they got us back
18:21to the rear that to Pyoktong dome built
18:26don’t excuse me yes once we got there we
18:29were turned over to the Chinese I mean
18:34the North Koreans there we were
18:37there but over to them they kept us are
18:41then and as I for eight months and of
18:44course well right after we captured
18:48there and so the other end of people
18:50probably that you’ve interviewed with
18:52tell you the same thing I’ve done you we
18:54was there for I don’t know how many it
18:59wasn’t too long that they moved us back
19:04down the road that we came up because
19:07they were bombing and strafing across
19:10over the mountain or the hills there for
19:13the electric company factory and so they
19:18moved us out there it moves back down
19:20the road and marches up into a big
19:24ravine that ravine in became as known as
19:28Death Valley there’s war we lost our
19:30first person to die now you’ve probably
19:33heard the word
19:35to some of the soldiers maybe who was
19:37endeth valley if you have been
19:39terminated by from our labor camp know
19:43when be hard labor camp in the when was
19:46there father Kapaun yummier has now he
19:56was with me there I was with him I wrote
19:59nice letters telling about him and what
20:03healthy able to get to middle monetary
20:05or a few weeks ago i was hoping i get to
20:08i found out that i’d get the letter to
20:11go to it but I didn’t but anyway he got
20:14it news I this if I do this when I’m
20:26tell him a story of school excuse me if
20:33if there’s ever a man that’s in heaven
20:37except he was 10 he would sneak out a
20:42tonight at nights through the compounds
20:47one of you father Kapaun as I said he’d
20:50sneak out at night with and father
20:52Kapaun he smoked tobacco it is I can’t
20:56marry he like Prince Albert but he may
20:59know had Prince I award at the time how
21:02are we smoked a pipe and when he get
21:05into their little compound or mud shack
21:07our room he would get out his eye his
21:11pipe and he would lighters this is not
21:15you people who smoke take a drag off of
21:19it just a drag because we wanted us to
21:21go around and then he would have a
21:26prayer with us no I got this to show
21:33when I go to the kids I use that to that
21:36buddy I don’t think was a prince albert
21:38game but he smoked Prince Albert when he
21:41could get it these are soybeans this is
21:44all of us there in death valley they
21:47fetish
21:49some soy beans and cook them things all
21:53day long they’re still there not we’re
21:56done but nice i used to work hungry
21:58which I very seldom ever do it’s just
22:01like using God in vain to to me that
22:04word is I always like to use the word
22:06empty and when they pass through your
22:10body not outlaw and you go out and you
22:13pick them up and eat them again that’s
22:14when you are hungry this is crack corn
22:22that crack corn and we try to eat that a
22:26little bit of got going there to give us
22:29okay so you collect this not from again
22:35no I’m here showing you the kids yes
22:40this is the food that we fed will do
22:43this is sorghum that they have over there
22:48sargam right fit some of that and I know
22:53what you this is what are you going yes
22:59you’re sure that they felt a lot of that
23:03lever that was our breakfast they
23:11campfire went to a day yes I hope my 34
23:17months was to a day I rations was
23:24canteen cup full recent no Anna reason
23:28why no is because I did a lot of the
23:32cooker and we measured just out half of
23:35it first morning the other half at night
23:39this is not actually the cup that I
23:42brought back but the original cup I did
23:47bring home with me is down in the museum
23:53reason we call campfire if the Chinese
23:56take miss over they numbered the camps
23:59one two and three so when you speak but
24:05when you Speaker came five it was
24:07numbered when i was there when the
24:10Chinese taking us over yes yes yes and
24:20then the Chinese started to damn calm
24:24their studies and all that so 150 of us
24:28no we’re not going to do it oh we refuse
24:34the one just to write we know right they
24:37want us to this this isn’t this we
24:40didn’t do it then he took a hundred and
24:42fifty of us and put us on the barge all
24:47night down the river and put us in would
24:52become the hard labor camp of number
24:55three as far as i know we were the first
24:59GIS to be in camp three the reason i say
25:05that is if they got us Sarah you know
25:10ago give you good food and all this
25:12stuff well it was a little bit of butter
25:15phone yes yes and so they tried again
25:19with their calmness studies well we
25:23refuse again but us to put us to work
25:30but not doing what we wanted to do we
25:33wanted to build roads no we didn’t do
25:38that they made us unload barges and the
25:49cut would dig playgrounds dig bomb
25:56shelters and things of that nature every
26:02morning then they would after he they
26:08get us up sent us the river divorce come
26:11back and take a fiscal accounts that
26:16exit fetus some of this garbage here
26:19which tasted mighty good when you’re
26:21hungry and then they would like us carry
26:27rocks way down here no one of around the
26:34waters and way over there to the other
26:39village over there we’d lay down the
26:42rocks and then they would march a sewing
26:45up the road or whatever you want to call
26:47her I presume would probably be back up
26:50the road and marches up into the
26:52mountains and repair we cut big poles
26:57light poles telephone poles big ones and
27:00of course we have oh hello we had a
27:03homemade axis of course by being an old
27:06farm boy I carried acts and I do the
27:11Chopin in the US to the boys they scoot
27:14these big poles off of the mountain and
27:17of course it’d be guards all the way up
27:19this side of mountain look this side of
27:21mountain we be working in between then
27:23we need income they put the back off
27:26then we’d have to carry these big long
27:28telephone poles or like bowls what one
27:31of them used way I found later on I will
27:33tell you about them what they’re really
27:34used him for and then we carry them all
27:38the way back now if we had good guards
27:42they had let us lay them down and take a
27:45break but if you had a bunch SOS they
27:49make you choke you the damn things all
27:50day long oh wait long back then when you
27:55get back her you may have
27:57one is one of these delegates but not
28:01this one right levis didn’t get too much
28:05about them but that was a that was
28:11summer but their day all summer
28:14companies though that’s 1951 then then
28:20they come along about oh almost he said
28:24now we’re going to take you to the
28:25mountains to cut your where I would Oh
28:28fine my gosh we’ll get to stay warm this
28:33letter because we have any hid in the
28:36winter of nineteen fifty no no you know
28:40what must be damned cold colder than
28:44hell that you’re now go L is eight it’s
28:48hell’s pretty odd well in all ways first
28:55captured we just know they made us hung
28:58up in the room they down I think there’s
29:0130 some in my little room in this room
29:03here they would be they’d be a hundred
29:07more in his room here what yeah well you
29:10seeking want revenge and fill this room
29:12well you go outside and maybe roll this
29:19way in a row this way they march you
29:22outside and then they march in there and
29:25you get there you lay down and the
29:27element lay down his body and you’re
29:29like this yeah and that’s the way that
29:33and of course stay warm what cuz we had
29:39what cause we had at at the time yeah so
29:46you will come the wood for the hit for
29:49the winter of 1951 yeah yeah and then
29:54get it we didn’t get burned the wood oh
29:59his prisoners that Westar this joy was
30:04treated we’re bad boys with bad boys so
30:09well that was it and so then who well
30:20shit him I gotta hit him a story and all
30:23when the Chinese took us back it took us
30:26back over they brought us some clues
30:34thin clothes and a white shirt that I
30:37tell you was that they say he brought us
30:40in gave us a white shirt and a blue coat
30:43like and blue trousers and of course
30:47their summer shoes and give us a cake of
30:50soap and marked us down to the river and
30:55we made it took a bath first bath we had
30:58an eight months this Bible which has got
31:02my name and gold order this Bible was
31:05given to me mm 8th grade at school i’ll
31:11read it to put it up put in this Bible
31:13this tempest was given to me a Christmas
31:18at Christmas 1946 I believe my school
31:24teacher elver Park I carried it through
31:28the Korean War also was able to keep it
31:32all through 34 months as a p.o Debbie it
31:37was in the flood of 1985 so when I was
31:44capture of course all-american good
31:46American soldiers would carry her
31:48Testament up here in his pocket when
31:52after is captured and they marched me
31:55put in this barn to start their search
31:57of me and these are my dog tags the
32:01defecation dogs that we where he went he
32:06says searching me and he felt my poverty
32:10and so it was either at that time it was
32:14either life or death as far as I concern
32:17again there so I wanted had learned a
32:21few words of
32:22trip though few words of Japanese I
32:25don’t know what I and whether he
32:28understood any of it and you’re not but
32:30anyway I held us up yeah I guess can I
32:35be like it and he and he loved that and
32:40I the Chinese Hera and I thought well
32:44listen he’d probably good take it or
32:47slevin me but he did he didn’t I wish I
32:51went and put it in my pocket put this
32:54back in my shirt pocket when he came to
32:58my dog tags he left mine on the neck the
33:03other two soldiers that was kept me he
33:06just grabbed his there’s and jerked him
33:08off and thrown away why would you I
33:11don’t know only they I know God must own
33:15him not to do it I I had an interview
33:19with other prisoner of war in care for
33:23Captain Cottam and they said that they
33:26were not allowed to kid the Bible
33:28whatsoever that’s true but why mommy I
33:33don’t know I don’t know that’s like why
33:37didn’t leave me if anything you know
33:39what I had an interview with the bill
33:41baker from Texas the Arlington chapter
33:45he kept his own Bible tool it’s a little
33:48bit smaller than their yes he kept he
33:51had the raker military Bible yes no but
33:55the Testament there that’s a regulatory
33:58when he had yeah and he wrote the names
34:02of this click in the camp you know the
34:05click yeah well so did you read it every
34:10day anything twice you mean twice a day
34:14now read the Bible the whole bottle
34:17twice I heard that there are many
34:21actually attempted suicide to give up
34:24their lives in the camp have you seen
34:26those no no no matter about it no what
34:31is
34:32to commit suicide I there some may have
34:37I don’t know I don’t know why do we have
34:40them today people look at the military’s
34:43committed suicide today what made you
34:47survive there
35:04so when did you know that you are going
35:07to be released I guess there’s a day
35:16that degrade all the camps was brought
35:21together at their headquarters and which
35:27we didn’t believe him and then they
35:30still receive you will be going home
35:32soon you know nobody’s excited because
35:37we didn’t believe it oh no and of course
35:42then if us guys there’s 149 I was still
35:47living you i have 150 maybe someday well
35:57we if we get to go home will be the last
36:00ones but we was i guess it probably in
36:05the middle of a turn this loose to come
36:07home and show that to the camera and
36:13tell me about this story this story
36:22as a no farm boy and what I I started
36:27one day I’m going to start making some
36:31booties oh yes yes in the present yeah
36:37and these are just a replicant the ones
36:42that I made for the boys in the state in
36:44the prison camp and I made these and as
36:49I said nervous what each individual this
36:53is his clothing that I’ve taken to make
36:57these and I made 32 these wobba in there
37:01before I was released so the reason why
37:04I have this pair of booties here today
37:06is because one of the soldiers who came
37:11to me after we was put in the hard labor
37:17camp he had been shot earth is still
37:20making out to die and i hated water and
37:24nursed his wound so when he came home he
37:30went to Mississippi where he was from
37:34and I had heard that he got killed in a
37:39car wreck shortly after come home well I
37:43never felt but I found out then Oh about
37:5010 to 15 years later when we was going
37:54to we are poww nature and here he came
37:58the reunion wheelchair and it’s oh no
38:03and he said to me well there’s more real
38:08and yeah before we left there he said
38:14more real would you make me a pair
38:16booties like you made for me well as
38:18impressive as the one yes I said okay
38:22ray I’ll make you a pair of booties so
38:26after i get home i sit down
38:29and I made him a pair of booties and I
38:33mailing to it I said would listen to
38:35myself I’m going to make me a pair of
38:38booties to taking show people so i made
38:41this pair of booties here from I see
38:44that you have your of the day I’ll in
38:49the other think that I hear the shirt
38:53the white shirt each HD i had to give me
38:57his shirt I took your shirt I cut the
39:01pattern his to then the claw two sides
39:05two souls and stuff them with the cotton
39:09of the ends of the their overcoat okay
39:15the needle and thread I there’s a piece
39:20of a guide war that you see on bowls I
39:22took two rocks and I pound them together
39:28and I got a piece of war that took this
39:31war and that’s a sandstone and I took
39:35into work this and made a sharp on the
39:38end then I took two other rocks and a
39:42pound together to make a I and I took
39:45the thread can I set this down now then
39:50I took the thread other the blankets the
39:56issued us would pull the string of
39:59thread other and I used to do that and
40:07then the the cotton here was packed in
40:12here they was Philippe the continent
40:17what is inside here was out of the tale
40:20of the overcoat and then once I got the
40:26fun here then I sold up soda back up and
40:30then after did that then I went through
40:33and not of that so the Cottonwood no go
40:36down the bottom or in the end that’s
40:39like Wilton that mama and grandma used
40:41to quilt
40:43so that’s the Angels please save the
40:47little people from the coldest winter
40:52Evan L real Amy Korean War survivor 34
40:58months I was captured on November the
41:01first 1950 by the Red Chinese and
41:04marched for 30 nights and then turned
41:06over to the North Koreans in order to
41:09survive during these eight months of
41:11captivity I mean maintain my faith in
41:17God I had to try to steal food from the
41:20crims to keep from starving I survived
41:24standing on the hills on a rock over my
41:27head and the dead the winner with a
41:30guard standing by me for the punishment
41:34for stealing shingles from the Koreans I
41:37was going to use the shingles to burn to
41:40eat upon for cooking myself and others
41:43in the compound I said I’m having the
41:46black new money even after praying to
41:49God to take me because I was in so much
41:54pain and out of my head one of my
41:58buddies ray hudson was shot through the
42:00stomach through his bang in order for
42:04him to survive i heated water daily to
42:07try to clean the womb he survived in
42:10return in remaining twenty six months
42:13was spent being held captive by the
42:15Chinese treatment here was no different
42:19than before a small group tried to make
42:22a mass escape it was captured and then
42:25in n thar 150 were punished by putting
42:29us in a large opentype building with
42:32temperatures 52 below zero with no heat
42:36in order to survive to smuggle real
42:40close together for some body I held the
42:44others to survive the bitter goal by
42:47making them booties for their feet I
42:50would take a man’s shirt and a coat for
42:53the materials for the man’s booties
42:56a number of my buddies fella buddies
43:00survivor from horrible punishments also
43:03an individual or individuals with can’t
43:07escape and be captured they some time
43:11would be court-martialed and sometimes
43:13they would be thrown at a big hole in
43:17the ground and be made to stay there for
43:20six months the only time they would
43:23allowed to come out was to use the
43:26bathroom these were some very trying the
43:31most horrible experience but through the
43:36prayers and faith in God I said I I know
43:46about it yes at the present time I have
43:53made up my mind ago ah i had a colonel
43:59set beside me at the such a thin a
44:01banquet last Tuesday night and oh I
44:05learned so much about Korea again and he
44:11told me all about this and and he still
44:15means like for me to come out revenge
44:19the crazy says I’ll take care of you he
44:22goes back to Korea and three months yeah
44:26Oh at the time I I really haven’t got
44:32the reoccurring i guess i should say
44:37them to go I’ve seen pictures I’ve said
44:41other buddies I got one or two that’s in
44:44our outfit the gate of here that’s been
44:46there yeah I can I I can imagine it you
44:51know and like I say I was there before
44:55the war then I saw all the way from
44:58Pusan all the way through so South Korea
45:01alway car up to the eula river and then
45:06all I saw going up
45:08susu but another power revel in oven
45:12area and uh I still still have that you
45:19know is my mind is to you know to really
45:24go you want to me I thought if I ever
45:28had the opportunity I’m and get the
45:36opportunity go with the teens excavating
45:40up there the and that we can go all the
45:43way up there I’ll buried some of our
45:47buddies I would consider really going to
45:52see if I could find him but but can’t
45:56five as you speak of that big backwater
46:00there which that winner there that when
46:03she died we took them out to him buried
46:06him on that brow point of the hill and
46:10scrape a little dirt a little snow on
46:12then when the spring there came in for
46:14our left k if I had to go to flurry they
46:17just floated down their bodies there
46:19with those bodies now are down in the
46:21bottom that’s been drained and I’ve been
46:25told by DoD yeah if there’s always
46:32between you and Chinese soldier in that
46:36camp would you be willing to shake hands
46:39with him yes i will now yes yes yes I
46:45would why a Charlie soldier yeah because
46:50let me elevator of it this way after
46:53they after was in prison that long the
47:02the lady tur Peter and the one pedone
47:10later who was an out brothers both
47:12officers Oh for each platoon
47:17and the episode leader who couldn’t
47:24speak no English but when he left there
47:27he could speak pretty good English now
47:30he he and of course the interpreter were
47:34very good to us they if I could shake
47:39his nail in her hand ico her her because
47:44we nickname him women yeah I r
47:48interpreter we nicknamed her Maxine
47:51because he was so feminine at all but i
47:54would if i could nae if I can meet I
47:58don’t know his name if I can eat him and
48:00her forgiving him yes I would yes I
48:05would because they those two individuals
48:08especially him well real good to us
48:13prisoners their Lords say that that way
48:16what about Luke wins ah no no no your
48:26service and I want to present this
48:30certificate it’s a certificate of
48:33ambassador for peace which was made by
48:36the Korean government ministry of
48:39patriots and Veterans Affairs and also
48:41Korean Veterans Association and I wrote
48:44your name in Korean as it pronounced F
48:47real okay that real so please read it
48:51and show you through the clamor of this
48:54ed real this picture here was taken the
48:59day I was released which was a 24th day
49:0390 August 1950 I got back on it the 25th
49:12the same ship that I got off of three
49:15years to the day this picture here is
49:20the
49:23worthy was having a swim of me and
49:27individuals from other president camp
49:29which they would come in at was swimmin
49:32meet there we weren’t allowed to go to
49:34other camps so this is a bigger picture
49:38of the day these group from her here a
49:41ghostly we have no head select like that
49:44in our camp so evidently the sum one of
49:49the other camps which was her away from
49:53us wow this is the exceptional picture
49:57the prisoners are swimming there he has
50:00illness thank you for sharing this
50:04picture with us