Marine Killed in Korea in ‘50 Identified & Coming Home
The Korean War Memorial.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Nearly six decades after he was killed fighting in the Korean War, a Marine is going home to Kentucky.
Donald Morris Walker was 19 when he was killed on Dec. 7, 1950, fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, where outnumbered U.S. forces faced a Chinese onslaught in one of the war’s bloodiest battles.
He was buried in an area that the Marines evacuated and that fell under North Korean and Chinese control. The United States was allowed to exhume the remains in 1954, but for decades they were buried at a military cemetery in Hawaii as an unknown soldier.
Troy Kitch, a spokesman for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii, confirmed the identification.
“It’s very good news,” said Walker’s niece Carolyn Stewart of Louisville. “We’ve heard so many different stories. There was no closure. Even though my grandmother isn’t alive to know, at least we know.”
It isn’t clear where Walker will be interred, but Stewart said she wants her uncle buried at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington.
(AP)
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Another outstanding achievement by our DNA forensics teams.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:00 pmI’m happy that his family will now be able to have closure. Another hero is identified and is comming home to rest.
RIP
I’m glad they were able to ID him and give him what he is due.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:39 pmWelcome home.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:47 pmRest easy, Marine.
That Korean Memorial is so beautiful, so realistic, that patrol, the setting, the expressions on their faces,,,
I was there 17 March this year. The morning felt so like a Korean day I was transfixed and carried into the scene. I felt so viscerally all the emotions of the long ago.
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October 14th, 2007 at 7:29 pmI’m currently doing a research project on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Those soldiers and marines pulled off an amazing feat; survival against all odds.
October 14th, 2007 at 8:35 pm