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SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION FROM THE KOREAN WAR IS IDENTIFIED
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (Public Affairs) ^ | Feb 17, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 02/20/2009 9:13:14 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson

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Welcome home, Sergeant Baylor, you have been gone far too long.
1 posted on 02/20/2009 9:13:14 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson
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To: Travis T. OJustice; E.G.C.; Aquakat; oh8eleven; beachn4fun; lakey; Kathy in Alaska; bmwcyle; ...

Until They Are Home

If you want on or off my MIA/POW Ping List, please FReep Mail or Ping me.

2 posted on 02/20/2009 9:14:11 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson (We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.-Robert E.Lee)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

I keep hoping it’s one of my cousins. I’ve never met him, he died before I was born, yet still I wonder when or if he will come home.


3 posted on 02/20/2009 9:16:42 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 31 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

BTTT


4 posted on 02/20/2009 9:17:09 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: null and void

What unit was he in and where was he lost?


5 posted on 02/20/2009 9:19:21 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson (We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.-Robert E.Lee)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome home Sgt. Baylor, may you rest in peace now.


6 posted on 02/20/2009 9:23:53 AM PST by tiredoflaundry (Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough bags of popcorn.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

An American patriot returns home.


7 posted on 02/20/2009 9:24:21 AM PST by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome home soldier.
Condolences to your family.

From http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123012446

Pinned down by a barrage of rocket fire and running out of supplies, American Soldiers staged one of the most valiant stands of the Korean War in the Battle of Unsan. Sheer determination and a strong will to survive were about all the members of the U.S. Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment had to get them through a fight marked with impossible odds.

The Battle of Unsan, which was one of the most devastating U.S. loses of the Korean War, broke out on the morning of Nov. 1, 1950. …

The men desperately fought off a swarming enemy. Rations were scarce and only provided to the wounded. Ammo was at critical levels — so low that troops were forced to forage for weapons among the enemy dead.


8 posted on 02/20/2009 9:25:23 AM PST by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: Neil E. Wright

Ping...


9 posted on 02/20/2009 9:26:30 AM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome home, Soldier.


10 posted on 02/20/2009 9:27:38 AM PST by FreedomFerret
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome home, brother.


11 posted on 02/20/2009 9:43:25 AM PST by Terabitten (To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome home, Sgt. Stanley E. Baylor, U.S. Army, of Webster, N.Y., and thank you for your sacrifice.


12 posted on 02/20/2009 9:49:07 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Dunno, Army, had only been there a few days. He drew the short straw to be the one to get water from the lake, and was machine gunned on the spot. The rest of his patrol escaped.


13 posted on 02/20/2009 9:50:01 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 31 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

God Bless the Baylor family and all our brave warriors.


14 posted on 02/20/2009 9:53:11 AM PST by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome Home-Thank You!!


15 posted on 02/20/2009 10:17:09 AM PST by Rj Snows
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“One of the most devastating US losses of the Korean War”

I think the destruction of the Army 31st RCT on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir was the most devastating loss due largely to high command incompetence and gross negligence.

Only 385 doggies out of 3,000 escaped to the 1st Marine perimeter where Chesty Puller threatened to have his tanks fire on them if they withdrew as much as a foot from their assigned positions.

16 posted on 02/20/2009 10:18:37 AM PST by Griddlee
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To: Griddlee
There is an elderly gentleman who comes into the Lowe's store where I work who served with the 31st Infantry in WW2.

He joined the Army when he was seventeen and was sent to the Philippines in July, 1941. Eight months later, he was captured by the Japanese and sent to a copper mine in Korea, where he was assigned to the blasting team. He quickly found a way to keep the Japanese from being too rough on him; he acted like he was crazy. The guards were convinced that his "insanity" was a punishment from the gods and they did not want to bring the wrath of those gods down upon themselves, so they generally left him alone.

17 posted on 02/20/2009 11:31:12 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson (We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.-Robert E.Lee)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Welcome home Sgt. and thank you.


18 posted on 02/20/2009 11:56:25 AM PST by SouthTexas (Can I have my house back that I lost in the 80s????)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

“Freedom Is Not Free”

Rest peacefully, Sgt. Baylor.

Thank you Korean War Veterans for your sacrifice and service.


19 posted on 02/20/2009 11:59:37 AM PST by Goldie Lurks (professional moonbat catcher)
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I wish I could have gotten my grandfather over to Washington DC to see the Korean War Memorial before he passed away.

Here are some pics of the memorial.


20 posted on 02/20/2009 12:16:48 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.-Robert E.Lee)
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