ALICE DORN:  

Nurse, Air Force, Middleton, WI

While airborne, cared for patients being transported

“ These patients were 18 years old. They were lying there-missing limbs and so on. That was a real tragedy for them, their families. I often wonder where they are now.”

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

RICH HEMLIN:

Staff Sergeant, 17th Regiment, 7th Division, Army, Madison, WI

Survived the battle for Pork Chop Hill

“We did our job.  We held the line"

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

VALDER JOHN:

Private First Class, 19th Regiment, 24th Division, Army POW, survived mass execution

“There were just too many of them.  They came at us, looked like ants coming over a hill…. It was just a slaughter from the time that we got there."

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

BOB KACHEL:

Private First Class, Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Division, Marines,  La Crosse, WI

"survived the battle of the Chosin Reservoir  “It was 30 below zero and you were outdoors 24 hours a day.  There was no food, well there was food, but it was frozen.  The weapons froze."

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

DALE KING:

Gunnery Sergeant, 5th Regiment, 24th Division, Army, Oshkosh/Colgate, WI  POW

“It had to be that way otherwise you wouldn’t survive.  If you said, ‘I give up’, you were gone.”

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

DICK NOOE:

Sergeant, 5th Regiment, 1st Division, Marines, Neenah, WI

"blind from combat injuries sustained in the last days of the warThree days before the armistice, it could be that the Chinese found me because I remember getting these severe blows to my face. Painful.  Just one after another."

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

STEWART SIZEMORE:

Sergeant First Class, 34th Regiment, 24th Division, Army, Lake Geneva, WI

survived the battle for Taejon 

“We were buying time with blood.  That is what it amounted to.”

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

W.O. WOOD:

Staff Sergeant, 17th Regiment, 7th Division, Army, Racine, WI

present at Yolu River

“I saw my first death.  I didn’t know what to do.  I just sat there and looked.  The otherssaid ‘This is war’.”

James Gill from Wisconsin Public Television

BOB BERGLUND:

Highground Volunteer

Served at Goose Bay in1953

MELVIN DUX:

US Air Force, 4-23-52 to 5-16-54

Korean War Tribute Committee Member, Highground Volunteer/Porch Greeter2004 – 2011.

HERBERT RODMAN JR:

Was drafted in 1952 and served in the Korean War from 1952-1954

Herbert’s wife was here with her Grandson for Diversity Days and was surprised to see her husband’s pictures and stories on display in the gallery of the Learning Center.

Her Grandson actually noticed his things and said “Hey Grandma, Grandpa’s over here on the wall.”