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Leon County man among those honored for war service

Austin, Tx (FOX 44) – A Leon County businessman and former mayor of the town of Leona was one of two men honored posthumously with the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor. This is the highest military decoration conferred on a service member of the Texas military forces. U.S. Army Sgt. Major Jerry Lynn Bell, of […]

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Waegwan's natural beauty - The Korea Times

Confined to the house endlessly, day after day, to avoid exposure to COVID-19, I missed lots of things outdoors. Most of all, I missed the clean, fresh air and the pretty, verdant growth of nature on Mt. Jagoh, which rises to a modest elevation of 303 meters. Waegwan is a small town with a population of less than 50,000 and there is nothing much to enjoy, from the perspective of culture and entertainment. It doesn’t even have a single cinema.

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Teaching is tough but enormously gratifying: Part 2

I taught my first Korean language course, Elementary Korean 111, at Camp Carroll Education Center in Waegwan in the fall of 1965. I was exhilarated and proud to teach a college course for a fully accredited university in the United States.

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Teaching is tough but enormously gratifying: Part 1

I started teaching when I was a junior in college. I taught English at a night high school in Daegu not far from home. It was shortly after my three-year active service in the Korean War. Everybody was poor and found living difficult in the war-torn, devastated country.

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On a hill in South Korea, a memorial to an Indian diplomat

Colonel M K Unni Nayar was the only Indian killed during the Korean War whose remains could not be brought back from South Korea. To this day, every year, officials in Daegu pay tribute to Nayar in honour of his services during the war.

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Revisiting old homes, reminiscing about past

There were times in the past, when I missed sorely those homes where I had lived, wondering if they were still there and how they would look now. Then one day in spring, decades ago, I felt a pang of nostalgia for them and set out impulsively to revisit them. My mind was racing back into the distant past, endeavoring to recall hazy memories of my childhood. Until I moved to my present residence in Waegwan 1962, I had lived within the city limits of Daegu since birth, where I attended all levels of school from elementary school to college.

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Augmentees Support 403rd AFSB during Freedom Shield 23 Exercise > U.S. Indo-Pacific Command > 2015

CAMP HENRY, South Korea -- After a hiatus of more than three years, Army Reserve augmentees supplemented the 403rd Army Field Support Brigade during a joint training exercise March 13-24.The augmentees were on hand for Exercise Freedom Shield 23, a,

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Penchant for winter mountaineering

On a nippy Sunday morning in February many years ago, I was on a train to go to Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province. I was going to climb Mount Jaeyak, not far from Miryang city. In my mid-70s and still somewhat thriving, I had not fully recovered from the flu. It had completely exhausted me for two weeks. But I was determined to challenge the high mountain. Like always, I was alone.

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Family albums: priceless, immortal treasures

Numerous fun times, happy times and beautiful times in our lives come and go soon, and are then forgotten eternally. But if we preserve those moments opportunely in photos, they stay alive and unchanged indefinitely for our journals of life. Photography is a marvelous human invention to embellish the quality of life through reminiscing. Also, photos taken of family activities bring back some beautiful and cherished memories of the past, wishing we could do it all over again. However, quite unwillingly now and then we encounter sorrowful memories of bygone days.

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Trimming grass on graves and 'hyo' (filial piety)

Chuseok, in a nutshell, is a festivity of the full moon, a gathering of family members, a homage to parents with gifts, the preparation of a sumptuous feast and the performance of ancestral rites at home with the feast before it is served among family members. First and foremost, it's a common courtesy to visit and trim the grass of ancestral graves before the holiday.

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