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Article: VETERANS GROUP REMEMBERS KOREAN WAR WITH REUNION.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2001
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Byline: JANET YARBROUGH MEYER Correspondent
OCEANFRONT - The Korean War may be considered the ``forgotten war.''
But, if Dick Gallmeyer has any say in it, the men and women who served in Korea from 1950 to 1953 will not be forgotten.
The Fox Run resident's self-imposed, full-time job has become a search to find as many of the 700,000 Korean War veterans as possible. After suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1992 and a colostomy in 1994, Gallmeyer, now 70, had plenty of time to think about his war buddies while recuperating in a Veterans Administration hospital bed in Hampton.
``I told my wife to bring in my war pictures,'' he ...