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Article: KOREAN WAR VETS SWAP TALES.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2003
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Byline: Monte Reel The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- Richard Gallmeyer's most vivid memory from 50 years ago this weekend has him sitting in a bunker in Korea, keying the microphone on a radio, counting backward from five and saying, "All units, this is Knight 5 -- cease fire! Over."
Gerald Brown can't specifically isolate July 27, 1953, in his memory because he didn't hear about the armistice agreement signed that day until mid-September. For him, July 27 was just another day spent in a prisoner of war camp.
Considered together, the two memories are fairly representative of Korean War veterans largely because they're so different -- talk ...