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The Lebanon County
Korean War 50th Year Remembrance Memorial was dedicated Jun. 18, 2000 by the Korean War "Remembrance Committee" to honor
the
2150 men and women from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania who served, and the
fourteen who fell in the Korean War between
Jun. 25, 1950 and Jul. 27, 1953, and stands in honored memory of all Korean War
Veterans.
Among the committee members, and Korean War Veterans, are Corporal
Thomas C. Shay of Mt. Gretna and Staff Sergeant Marlin C. Wolf Sr.
of Lebanon. Corporal Shay was a Browning Automatic Rifleman in
the 1st Marines Division. Army Staff Sergeant Wolf served in
the 92nd Armored Field Artillery, known as the "Red Devils".
Mr. Shay and Mr. Wolf
are both members of VFW Post 23 and are members of the Honor Guard
at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Lebanon County, PA.
Honored veteran Ernest P. Zserai of Jonestown was an Army Sergeant
who was captured and held as a Prisoner Of War for about five days.
On May 29, 2002, about
150 veterans and guests attended a ceremony for thirty-eight of
Pennsylvania's Korean War Veterans from sixteen counties who
received commemorative pins noting the 50th anniversary of the war.
The ceremony, led by Congressman George Gekas, Senator Arlen Specter
and former Senator Bob Dole, took place at the Wormleysburg American
Legion, Wormleysburg, PA, just across the Susquehanna River from
Harrisburg, PA. Senator Specter also received a pin for
serving as a First Lieutenant in the Air Force Special Investigation
Unit during the Korean War. |



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