Our War: Korea
'It took you long enough to find me': After 60 years, Korea vet meets daughter of buddy killed in action
Nearly 60 years after a Korean War veteran made a promise to himself to find the daughter of a friend killed in action, he finally got to shake her hand and tell her about the man she never knew. Inside: The story that brought them together
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As he grew up in Henderson, Minn., Jim Corcoran dreamed of becoming a famous flier like his idol, Charles Lindbergh.
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OUR WAR: KOREA
Our War Korea: Vet battled communists in China before the U.S. ever entered Korea
When 83-year-old Collinsville resident Leon Anderson was in high school, one of his neighbors came back from fighting in World War II.
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'I just wanted to make it home in one piece,' Korean War vet recalls
In 1950, 24-year-old Delmer Scheurer had never strayed too far from his family's farm near Scott Air Force Base in rural St. Clair County.
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OUR WAR: KOREA
'I was lucky': Korean War vet saw the horrors of war, but Mother Nature sent him home
Collinsville native Wayman Milam, 82, joined the Army twice.
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'I'm a believer': Korean War veteran says divine intervention helped him survive
Col. William E. Chatfield says a divine hand dealt him a successful 34 years with the Air Force, and kept him safe through three wars. Inside: Video of his story
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OUR WAR: KOREA
Veteran talks to slain buddy's daughter: 'I told her ... that he was a real good man'
It was modern technology that helped them get in contact, 60 years after one of them decided to find the other.
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Veteran credits piece of Civil War equipment for getting him through tour in Korea
When Thomas Lapins was shipped off to Korea in 1951, he wore a standard issue U.S. Army belt buckle.
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Our War: Korea ... This time, the telegram had good news for soldier's family
Neighbors eyed a courier who worked his way to an East St. Louis home.
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Our War: Korea ... Army veteran became one of the military's 'guinea pigs'
Drafted into the Army on his 20th birthday in March 1953, Henry Weilmuenster was a week and a half from being shipped to the Korean peninsula as an infantryman.
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Machine-gunner also fought Korea's extreme cold
Patrick Crawford spent a year in South Korea, ankle-deep in damp mud and empty shells, ducking in and out of 4-foot-deep foxholes.
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