Saturday, October 16, 2010

Forgotten heroes: Korean veterans

From the Maitland Mercury report:
For two veterans in Maitland the Korean war still seems very much an unknown war – as far as the government is concerned too. On October 23, a national ceremony will be held at the Australian National Korean War Memorial in Canberra to mark the 60th anniversary of that war. But former Royal Australian Navy sailor Dave Cunningham and infantryman Basil Stemp, who both served in Korea, told the Mercury they knew nothing about the upcoming Canberra ceremony and had received no information about it.

Full article available at Maitland Mercury, 15 Oct, 2010.