Bill Silcox News Today

A planning committee recommendation to name Fire Station 1 in honor of former Fire Chief Fred Tetor was unanimously approved by the Mount Pleasant Town Council on Dec. 12, as

By Guy Busby BAY MINETTE – Almost seven decades after being wounded during the Korean War, veteran Bill Silcox of Robertsdale received his Purple Heart medal Tuesday during a ceremony in the Baldwin County Commission chambers. Silcox was a private first class in the Army’s 224th Infantry Regiment when he was wounded on March 14, 1952 in Kumsong, North Korea. Silcox said he was wounded twice during the campaign, but believes the medal was for the time he was hit in the leg by shrapnel. “I ...