| LETTERS
6/27/06 - Letter received from Clif Langseth written to the Heart of America
POW Chapter concerning the demise of Mildred Langseth on April 28, 2006
and her wish for donations to be sent to The Gideons International at
Nashville, Tennessee. Click here to read
3/24 - This is the typical
response received by most everyone that looks at our POW Book. Many thanks
to Charles Sibert for him donating a book to the Belton Historical Society.
Click here to read
3/1 -Thank you card from Vida
Bilales (click here)
Mark R. Moore, our 2004 Heart
of America Chapter Commander, expired on February 15 2006. At his funeral,
attended by more than 400 people , 22 former POW's in uniform paid honor
to him with their "Final Salute". A folded American flag was
also presented to Clarice, Mark Moore's wife of 67 years by the present
Chapter Commander George Lesko. Click here to read
a letter from his son Brad Moore.
What a Wonderful tribute to
our POW'S and their families!!
Spent this morning viewing the different areas and it's great.
Thank you and everyone involved in this site.
Sincerely,
Flo Thomas ( John Thomas)
Sent: Wednesday, April 20,
2005 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: "Heart of America POW" web site.
George,
Don't know of how many ways
we can ever thank you and Jim. It really looks
great. I personally want to
thank you both so very much. Anxious to see more.
Shirlee and Bob Jackson
April 25, 2005
Hi George:
Here's a good one for you. On our death march there were three hundred
eighty P.O.W's started the march. Four months later in a tunnel in Sunchon
N.K. there was a massacre of about one hundred and seventy P.O.W's. That
was the first night of the massacre, Seven men were wounded and got away
that night and the next day and were found by American troops. The next
night they took us out of the tunnel (38) P.O.W's and did the same thing
to us. At that time I thought there were only two of us that survived.
I found out thru Washington three years ago that there were three of us.
One died a short time later back home. This is why I am telling you this
story. Yesterday the 26th of March I had a phone call and he ask me if
I was Ed Slater the P.O.W. from Korea. I said yes and he said - well this
is Walter Whitcomb and the only other surviver from the march. I was speechless.
After 54 years I thought he was dead. Now was that a surprise or not?
I guess they are still out there. He talked with Gerald Harvey in California.
That is how he found me.
Hope to see you at Osage Beach?
Ed Slater
May 25, 2005
From: Val Provencio
Hi George,
Just the other week my father, Valdor W. John, was honored from his tribe
for the ordeal of the Sunchon N.K death march and tunnel slaughter. I
am his daughter, Valerie, and I am trying to track down certain events
that occurred during my father's time in Korea. I know he was with Slater's
unit. I was surprised when I saw this in your letter from Slater dated
April, 2005. I believe Slater knows my father and has been in touch. He
is currently at the Oneida Indian Reservation, Oneida Wisconsin.
May 26, 2005
Ed Slater
"Our site is at work. Yea!".
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