Sent by Patriot Paul Kautz Massapequa NY. Paul has donated a lot of his time helping the Military Order Of The Purple Heart. To Distribute dozens of BOOKS OF MERIT to various libraries upstate New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North and South Carolinas. We hope that a lot of veterans will be able to contact one another because of Paul's actions and generosity. 

Keep it moving, please, even if you've seen it before.


It is the VETERAN, not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It i! s the VETERAN, not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN, not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.



It is the VETERAN,
who salutes the Flag,




It is the veteran,
who serves under the Flag,




ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

I don't know if you saw this in the news but it really impressed me. Funny, our US Senate/House took 2 days off as they couldn't work because of the expected storm.

On the ABC evening news, it was reported tonight that, because of the dangers from Hurricane Isabelle approaching Washington DC, the military members assigned the duty of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were given permission to suspend the assignment.

They respectfully declined the offer, "No way, Sir!"

Soaked to the skin, marching in the pelting rain of a tropical storm, they said that guarding the Tomb was not just an assignment; it was the highest honor that can be afforded to a serviceperson.

The tomb has been patrolled continuously, 24/7, since 1930.


I don't usually suggest that many emails be forwarded, but I'd be EXTREMELY proud if this one reached as many as possible. We can be very proud of our young men and women in the service no matter where they serve.

God Bless  them all!!!

The World needs to know about the United Nations Memorial Wall in the United Nations Cemetery Korea!

It is a magnificent memorial, longer than the wall of the renowned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and records the names of 40,895 United Nations service personnel who fell while on Korean War Service.

Hello Veterans,

We received some of the illustrations below from His Excellency Lee Suk-jo, Custodian of the United National Memorial Cemetery Korea, Mr. Kim Soon-bong, Assistant Custodian and their executive secretary, Miss Kim E.J.

His Excellency Lee Suk-jo, Custodian, United Nations Memorial Cemetery Korea

They illustrate the United Nations Memorial Wall. It is a great memorial and work of art - measuring two meters high by approximately 150 meters in length - one and one-half football fields!

It contains the names of 40,895 allied servicemen who lost their lives on United Nations service during the Korean War. The Memorial Wall was dedicated - with virtually no fanfare of publicity: In fact Veterans all over North America are shocked to learn of its existence - on October 24 last year, marking the 61st anniversary of the 1945 founding of the United Nations.

His Excellency Marius Grinius, Canada’s Ambassador in Korea, inspects the Memorial Wall at its dedication last October. Ambassador Grinius this year heads up the United Nations Memorial Cemetery Korea Commission which oversees the Cemetery.

The only news article seen by our editors about the wall and dedication was a photograph that appeared in a Korean newspaper. It showed Canadian Ambassador His Excellency Marius R. Grinius (a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada and former artillery major) and others examining names of the Fallen on the wall.

Ambassador Grinius currently is the head of the UN Memorial Cemetery Commission which overseas the cemetery and is comprised of the Ambassadors (or their representatives) of the countries of the interred servicemen.

Obviously, something was amiss that this vast memorial was not properly represented by the international news media.

In length it is larger in size than the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, or “Vietnam Wall” is known the world over.

The United Nations Memorial Wall is known only by a few. It is not even known among Korean War Veterans who served in the war and whose comrades it commemorates.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial contains the names of 58,253 personnel who fell in service during the Vietnam War.

The United Nations Memorial Wall in the UN Cemetery contains the names of 40,895 who fell in service during the Korean War.

We have not published photographs of all of the individual panels that comprise the Canadian section, which is approximately 12 feet in width. Because of daylight glare on the granite the names are not discernible in some places on two of the panels.

Obviously, there is a mission to undertake. Somebody has to arrange for a professional photographer to get to the UN Cemetery and take clear photographs of the panels. The photographer must do that with the reproduction process in mind for producing mural prints or posters.

These could be developed in exact scale or smaller scale in which the names are still discernible and be affixed to display mount backings.

The depictions of the Memorial Wall could be displayed wherever Korean War Veterans congregate, to pay tribute to all who fell.

Cost of the on-site photographic requirements is something that Veterans Affairs Canada could assist with through its "Canada Remembers" program.

VAC could provide media on electronic disk or transparency to various Veterans units on request. These could be photographically reproduced or reproduced as mural prints in a competent graphics house. The local cost of the reproductions could be handled by the Veterans organization or unit. It wouldn’t be very substantial.

The Canadian Korean War Commemoration Committee will be pleased to mount such an effort, knowing some of the nitty gritty required.

Short of that we could provide consultation service, including a simple action plan for handling the assignment, for an organization wishing to undertake it.

The Canadian section of the United Nations Memorial Wall comprises slightly more than three full panels but is spread over four because the names begin midway down the first panel.