He wasn’t just any old vet, he was a member of the “White Tigers:” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1555813/posts If anyone should know better, I would think he should.
“Those bastards already knew Newman before the war was over,” said Kim Chang-sun, one of the men who presented Newman with the ring in 1953. Kim was still at school when he joined the ‘Kuwol’ Partisan Regiment, a force that Newman trained, he said in an interview in Seoul.
“They obtained the roster of our entire regiment,” Kim said.