A year or so ago, I got a call from a friend who knew that I
had been in combat in the Korean war. A friend of his was, at
that time, working on a contract with a military web site, www.military.com,
to produce content for the 50th anniversary of the Korean war.
She brought along lights and a camera man and interviewed me
on camera. It seemed like a lot of fuss over something that happened 50
years ago. Somewhere out there is a recording of the interview, but it
probably will never be made public as I never signed a release.
She was interested in the fact that I had taken some slides
during my tour in Korea and wanted some to illustrate her piece.
Up until then I'd not really looked at these slides since returning
home from the war 50 years ago.
I dug out the slides and started digitizing them for her to
use. During that process I was forced to take close looks at each of
the the slides as I processed them. I was surprised by the memories stirred up during
this digitizing
process. Some were as fresh as this morning's dew.
I promised myself to capture these memories and relate them
to the slides. A web-based scrapbook seemed like the way to do it.
These web pages are the result.