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Korean War veterans reunite to share stories, remember comrades


Members of Texarkana’s Marine Corps Artillery “Battery C” gathered at Smokey Joe’s Barbeque Friday afternoon for a reunion. The Korean War veterans were from the East Texas area before being shipped out to war.
During the 1962 movie “The Longest Day,” Royal Air Force fighter pilot Richard Burton spoke about the few members of his squadron getting “fewer.”

During their recent annual reunion, surviving members of the U.S. 1st Marine Corps Division’s Texarkana Battery C felt the same way.

Of the 55 to 60 members of the USMC 105mm Howitzer Battery C, who gathered Friday at a local barbecue restaurant,

Many of the 60 servicemen who gathered Friday night in Texarkana, were members of the “Chosin Few” - a Marine unit in North Korea’s Chosen Reservoir between Dec. 6 a...
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