Acknowledgements
This scrapbook started out being just another scrapbook in a series of
scrapbooks that make up an online family album I'm creating. I'd already
scanned the slides and I figured that it would take no more that a couple of
days to construct this scrapbook for the family album.
Once I got started, though, I found that the set of 98 slides that make up
this scrapbook were laden with memories that I'd not looked at for 50
years. The more I wrote as I constructed the scrapbook the more I found
that there were large gaping holes in my memories. The names of many
people, places, and events had turned to dust and blown away during the
intervening half-century.
I looked to the Internet in hopes of finding clues to missing memories and
found that many people had already been down that trail. I moved this
Korean War scrapbook from my private server to my public one, and asked for
comments. I really did not expect a response -- after all any survivors
would be 70 years or more old by now and might have paid no more attention to
the Korean War than I had during the last 50 years.
I was wrong. What I found were groups online dedicated to restoring
and maintaining memories of the "forgotten war" and demanding its
rightful place in history.
So I gratefully and humbly acknowledge all of these people for the support, contributions, and help I've
received especially from these members of
The
Outpost Harry Survivors Association:
Martin Markley - Martin was the first to respond to my call for
assistance and has continued to be instrumental in connecting me to
members of the OP Harry Survivors Association and the 3rd Infantry Division
organization. His shared pictures and memories of that time and place
when our paths crossed in Korea 50 years ago have been instrumental in
putting this scrapbook in order.
James Jarboe - Drawing on his photo records and memories of his
time in Korea as a Combat Photographer, Jim has help flesh out details and
has given substance to what had become only dim memories and nearly forgotten
dreams.
Don Daly - Thanks for giving me back the name of my replacement,
Lt. Reimers, who died on Outpost Harry shortly after he replaced me in 1953.
Ray Anderson - An Outpost Harry survivor for asking questions that
pushed me to examine those times more closely
Claude Williams - For his added perspectives and contributions of
places and times.
Click here for a sample of the
sort of research that the comments from these people generated. This is
just looking at a single slide and trying to figure out what it was that I'd
captured when I took it 50 years ago. I'd mislabeled OP Harry and OP
Howe on the original slide call-outs.