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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 29, 1993 a . The stars and stripes Page 7 veterans of korean Battle recall the forgotten war7, Arlington a. A on shirts and headgear in words of frustration veterans of Korea 1950-53, still Call it the forgotten  now they re hearing it was a late to be recognized Victory the beginning of the end for communism. Now when i think of Korea the word forgotten does not come to mind Deputy veterans affairs Secretary Hershel Gober said in a speech 40 years to the Day after a cease fire ended the fighting. Korea was the beginning of the end for communism. It was stopped dead in its tracks by those who fought the korean  Gober introduced As president Clinton s representative to a crowd of More than 500 in Arlington National cemetery in tuesday read a message from the presi Dent that said on this 40th anniversary of the cease fire i Pray that our tomorrows will give peace a place in the world. Your attendance Here today confirms that the Korea War is not the forgotten War " the president a boy of 6 when the korean War ended also expressed his eternal gratitude to those americans who served in Korea and most especially to the families they left  veterans of the korean War served America valiantly during one of the most difficult periods of this country. Their experiences remind All americans of our great debt to those who have risked and some times lost their lives in defense of our Liberty Clin ton said. Signers of the july 27, 1953, armistice at p an Mun Jom which Clinton visited earlier this month did t Tail Hook prosecutor reportedly removed by Navy in dispute " Norfolk a. Up the Navy has removed a prosecutor in the Tail Hook sex scandal cases after he said he did not have enough evidence to court martial an aviator it was reported tuesday. The prosecutor it. Damian Hansen told Navy officials directing the Tail Hook disciplinary proceedings that the charges should not be pursued. The virginian Pilot and the Ledger Star reported that the Navy had reassigned Hansen to the naval Legal services office. Hansen declined to comment but a spokesman for vice adm. Joseph p. Reason who oversees the Tail Hook prosecutions called it an internal Navy  the dispute arose in the Case of it. Cole Cowden a Norfolk based e-2c Hawkeye aviator. Authorities accused Cowden of indecent assault and conduct unbecoming an officer involving the Tail Hook association s 1990 and 1991 conventions in Las vegas. A hearing officer last week recommended that Rea son dismiss charges against Cowden. The recommendation came after Cowden attended a preliminary hearing to  that he licked the breast of a nurse at the september 1991 convention and molested a student helicopter Pilot at the 19904 convention. During a five hour hearing Hansen said one of two women listed As a victim in the Case did not want to testify against Cowden and did not consider herself an As Sault victim. E realize at the time they were signing the death certificate for communism Gober said. South korean ambassador Han Seung sob said some May think of Korea As a forgotten War but his people will remember forever that the United states and its allies saved his country and inspired it to be come democratic and to Prosper. Our Progress the democracy and capitalism that prevail in so much of Asia today May be some Smalt measure of Comfort for those heroes who fell and for their families Han said. They did not die in vain and we have not  Gober said the korean War is now the remembered Victory and completion of the Long overdue korean War memorial will ensure that it always remains  last year then president Bush attended the ground breaking of the memorial that he said would ensure that no american will Ever forget the test of Freedom Pur Brave sons and daughters faced in Korea. Construction started in april and july 27, 1995 the 42nd anniversary of the p Panmunjom armistice has been set for its inaugural. At its Center will be 19 statues of soldiers in combat. The site is near the Lin Coln and Vietnam War memorials on Washington s National mall. The 1953 truce in Korea ended 38 months of fighting that claimed the lives of 54,000 americans 58,000 South koreans and 3,000 troops from 15 other Allied countries fighting for the first time under the . Flag. Several times that Many were wounded and More than 8,100 americans Are listed As missing in action Gobe said. Of 7,140 americans taken prisoner 2,701 died in Captivity. On death Row Bergen county police officer Lou Pipon pets Taro an Akita at the county jail Annex in Hackensack n j., on tuesday. Taro has been in jail since february 1991 fac ing a death sentence for attacking the 10-year-old granddaughter of the dog s owners Bertha and Ber Nard Halfond. The Halfond have reportedly spent $25,000 on Legal fees to save their pet. Former the evangel 1st Bakker Likely to serve full sentence from wire reports Charlotte . Former televangelist Jim Bakker convicted of bilking millions of dollars from his ministry s contributors will not be released from prison this year the . Parole commission Rule wednesday. This was his last available remedy so at this Point in time he will be serving his sentence to expiration said Mark Sakaley a spokesman for the Justice department. Bakker was convicted in 1989 of Federal charges of defrauding contributors to the pal ministry he founded. He was first sentenced to 45 years in prison but the sentence was reduced to eight years. New lieutenant governor Little Rock Ark. Baptist minister Mike Huckabee has been elected lieutenant governor narrowly defeating a former aide to Bill Clinton to become the fourth Republican chosen for statewide office in Arkansas this Century. With 99,percent of precincts reporting in tuesday s special election Huckabee had 148,270 votes or 51 percent to 142807 votes or 49 percent for Nate Coulter. V Huckabee succeeds Jim by Tucker who became governor after Clinton was elected president. Killer 29, executed Potosi to. A Man who claimed to have been out of his mind on drugs when at age 17 he stabbed to death his ailing Foster Mother was executed by injection Early wednesday. Frederick Lashley 29, went to his death at the Potosi correctional Center after the . Supreme court unanimously rejected a late hour Appeal. He said he held no grudge against any of the persons involved in the execution that he understood that those that were involved in the execution had a Job to do said George Lombardi a corrections official. Lashley was the youngest person on Missouri s death Row when he was sentenced at age 17 to die for the 1981 murder of 55-year-old Janie Tracy in St. Louis. Denny s hires Bias Monitor Spartanburg . Denny s restaurants facing accusations of discrimination against Black customers has hired a California business consultant to Monitor civil rights violations. Joseph d. Russell will administer an agreement known As a consent decree Between the . Justice department and Denny s that includes random testing of the Chain s California restaurants for Bias. He also will implement and Monitor sensitivity training for All employees of the nationwide restaurant Chain the company said tuesday. Russell whose position was created As part of the consent decree will be based at a Denny s regional office in Irvine Calif. Denny s Parent Flagstad cos. Inc., is based in Spartanburg. A act office firebombed Sacramento Calif. A firebomb hurled through a window destroyed the a act s Sacramento office tuesday the second attack in a week on one of the civil rights group s facilities. The single Story building was empty when someone threw a flammable liquid Type device through the window around 2 a.m., said fire capt. Craig Watrous. No one was Hurt and no arrests were immediately made. 9 killed in fiery California Highway crash Bakersfield Calif. A a fiery seven vehicle pileup on a stretch of Highway under construction left nine people dead. The Chain reaction crash occurred tuesday afternoon about eight Miles South of Bakersfield and included two tractor trailers the California Highway patrol said. One of the rigs landed on a pickup truck authorities said. Survivors painted a picture of terror and confusion created by the crash whose cause was not immediately known. Louie Ourique who was driving one of the tractor trailers said he tried to avoid a Small car and May have run Over another vehicle. A Little car Cut in front of me so i tried to avoid him. That Guy just went in and put so Quick so fast and then i Felt the Impact he said. He said his truck caught fire and he had to escape through the passenger door. All of a Sud Jaq. My husband looked in the rear View Mirror and said of my god " said Helen cotes a passenger in a car that was struck. Suddenly All the lanes were clogged like an .  the crash occurred on a Section where Drivers had to slow Down because of construction. Nine people died at the scene and three others were treated for minor injuries cup dispatcher Dan Miller said. Wreckage littered the Highway Early wednesday and a fire feeding on thou Sands of diapers inside one of the trucks burned into the night. None of the victims was immediately identified  
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