Honoring Those Who Paid the Price : Forgotten Voices from the Korean War

by MILLS RANDY KEITH

• ISBN13: 9780871951625
• ISBN10: 0871951622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

Summary

In December 1950 Donald Hamilton of Solsberry. Indiana, a medic with the Eighth Army's Seventh Division became trapped with the rest of his comrades under fierce onslaught by Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir. As Hamilton prepared to escape to safety, he heard a fellow soldier scream for help. Disregarding a friend's plea not to return. Hamilton went back to offer aid. He was never seen again. For many years afterward Donald's father. Oval Hamilton, kept hoping that his son was alive, telling army officials, "Send me just one bone of my son, and I'll accept his death." On the day before Oval Hamilton's death at age ninety-six, be told his granddaughter, "Maybe Donald will get to come home before I die." The name of Donald Hamilton is one of the 927 Hoosiers honored at the state's Korean War memorial in Indianapolis for giving their lives during the Asian conflict. The story of those who died, those who served, and the loved ones back home who struggled to understand the horrors of war are examined in "Honoring Those Who Paid the Price": Forgotten Voices from the Korean War For the book, supported by a Clio Grant from the Indiana Historical Society, author Randy K. Mills personally interviewed a number of Hoosier veterans of the war, reviewed letters from veterans to loved ones back home, perused local and national media accounts, and consulted definitive historical studies about the conflict that killed approximately 54,000 Americans.

Author Biography

Randy Mills is an associate professor of history at Oakland City University in Oakland City, Indiana. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Indiana and midwestern history

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xiii
Illusions of Peace	3	(34)
The Storm Breaks	37	(44)
Illusions of Victory	81	(32)
Bitter Retreat	113	(40)
The Imperfect War	153	(44)
The Hoosier Home Front	197	(36)
Aftermath	233	(10)
Appendix	243	(2)
Notes	245	(14)
Bibliography	259	(4)
Index	263