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Yongsan Legacy Newsletter - Aug 2023
Mapping is a simple exercise that combines your memory and cognitive skills. And when combined with social dimension of sharing your very own image of…
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Yongsan Legacy Newsletter - July 2023
To celebrate the first edition of Yongsan Legacy Newsletter, it seemed appropriate to dedicate the entire month to feature stories about the day these…
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Co-incidences from 1958
Almost 60 years later, two GIs find out their mystery photos are looking right at each other; one from Itaewon and the other from Hannamdong. "I'm…
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Action in the Yongsan Commissary
The new Commissary didn't replace this one until well after the early 80s... remember the banana fights...
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Mapping Yongsan Garrison and the Surroundings
A series of written correspondences between two GI's who never met in person describes raw images of Yongsan Garrison and Yongsan Area in the 60's and…
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Yongsan Legacy Newsletter - July 2023
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The Arrival in 1958
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That's my story of how I got to Korea.
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The Arrival in 1958
I had thoughts about contacting my doctor and trying for a deferment or contacting the Red Cross because my dad was sick. But then I thought, real men…
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How did I get here?
This is my initial impression outside the gate, and I was not enthused. That was what we call TDC, Ville, or Dong Du Chon. (Excerpt from his Yongsan…
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That's my story of how I got to Korea.
Almost every Basic Training Sgt's were Korean War Veterans. They were rough on us...Once in the Inchon area we were put on smaller tender boats to go…
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