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I really enjoy the Chronicle and look forward to every issue. I wanted to say thank you to your editor for his service in Korea.

I headed up several 50th Anniversary of the Korean War commemorations in Aiken County. I have a loved one, Sgt. 1st Class Homer I. May, who was MIA on Hill 851 just over the DMZ in North Korea. He earned a Distinguished Service Cross for his action the night before he went missing during an attack by the Chinese.

My uncle’s missing status led me to become active in VSOs and the KWVA.

When I read the short account about your Korean War service and you mentioned your longing for a bath I had to chuckle.

It made me recall a patriotic program I did in one of the schools at Leavelle Mc-Campbell Middle School. I shared the memoirs of one of the veterans who wrote that he had not had a real bath in over 9 months while at the front.

Right then and there, almost all of the boys wanted to sign up. I figured given another year they would become aware of girls and lose that eagerness to serve somewhere they could not bathe.

By the way, and you probably already know this, the government provides a marker for any MIA in any national cemetery. Uncle Homer’s is in Arlington. It provided closure for my mom, his big sister, when we took her there to see it.

Thank you for serving our Lord and serving in the military, too.

Judy Knight, Lexington