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Article: KOREAN VETS' HONOR COMES TOO LATE FOR DANNY.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 26, 1990
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Byline: Robert Borsellino
Danny was 19 when he went off to war on a fall afternoon in 1950. He returned two years later a damaged man.
"Korea did this to me," he'd say, his eyes watery, his shaky, nicotine-stained fingers clutching a cigarette.
He knew the places - Chosen, Pusan, Panmunjom - and he could spin out the facts and figures: 54,246 Americans died, 103,000 were wounded, 16 nations played a role and just over one million people - civilian and military - were killed, wounded, captured or listed as missing in a war that lasted three years, one month and two days.
When the truce was signed on July 27, 1953, "there was none of the ...