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Georgia Korean War veterans remembered at state capitol

Sunny K Park • August 12, 2024

Georgia Korean War veterans remembered at state capitol



Staff Writer: Athens Banner-Herald

The America-Korea Friendship Society hosted a commemorative observance at the Rotunda in the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on July 27.


July 27 marked the 62nd anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War, and the ceremony was to remember the 740 Georgians killed in the Korean War and to honor all Korean War Veterans who reside in Georgia. Wreaths were laid by fellow Korean War Veterans, Korean Government officials, Korean-American Association of Greater Atlanta members and the Atlanta Rotary Club.


Among attendees were Sunny Park, president of the America Korea Friendship Society; Frank Blake, retired chairman of Home Depot; Commissioner Mike Roby from the Georgia Department of Veterans Service; retired Col. Ben Malcom, a 2014 inductee into Georgia Military Veterans Hall of Fame and Korean War veteran; retired Gen. Larry Ellis, chair of the American Korea Friendship Society; Brigadier Gen. Joseph Jarrad, adjutant general in Georgia; Brigadier Gen. David Turner, commander in the South Atlantic Division, Army Corps of Engineers; and retired Col. Rick White, chairman of the Georgia Military Veterans Hall of Fame.


The Hope Johns Creek Korean American Youth Orchestra provided musical interludes.


reference: https://www.onlineathens.com/story/lifestyle/around-town/2015/08/10/georgia-korean-war-veterans-remembered-state-capitol/15486650007/


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