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Korean War Veterans Association

Chartered by Congress June 30, 2008
*Korean War and Korea Service Veterans...
A Continuity of Service in the Defense of Freedom
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(Membership info/ Application Form)

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INFORMATION

Korean War
Memorials

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VA List of America's Wars + Statistics

VA eBenefits
Gateway to Vet Benefit Info

MIA Family Outreach

Info about Other
Korea Service Orgs

Links to Websites
of Interest

Music you will remember

The Second Korean War - 1966-1969

ABMC Honor Roll Casualty Database

ABOUT US

KWVA... Brief History
and Founding Info.

The Graybeards...
A Brief History

Korean War...
A Brief Account

Viewer Comments
& Letters

ARCHIVES

The Graybeards...
Online Archives of Past Issues

Archives of Past
Website Info.

 
Click here for Photo Galleries of KWVA Events, Meetings and More!

Click here for a
larger slide show

KWVA Home Page

Convention 2013 - July 24-28...

Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel
900 S Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204
HOTEL - Central Reservations (Toll Free): (800) 325-3535 - Local/direct 703-521-1900

Registration Form, Hotel Info, Tour Descriptions etc. NOW AVAILABLE!

Click HERE For Details and Registration Form

Note: HOTEL CUT OFF DATE: 7/3/2013; Reservations received after this date
will be processed on a space available basis, at the prevailing public rate.


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The May/June, 2013 of The Graybeards
was mailed Wednesday, June 19... look for your copy soon!!

Click the following links for a preview... (PDF Files)

(Posted 6/19/13)

US Photo Contest to Honor Korean War Veterans June-July

New York, N.Y.– The first US nation-wide photo contest entitled “Remembered Moments in Korean War” will be hosted by Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI USA), a Korean government agency in New York, to pay tributes to Korean War veterans. The contest, a part of the 2013 Body & Seoul - Korean War Veterans & Families Health Appreciation Event, is held in partnership with the Korean War Veterans Association (KWVA).

July 7 submission deadline; Winners to receive All-Expenses-Paid VIP Trip to Korea

Open to all US Korean War veterans and their families, the commemorative photo contest marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, of which date July 27 was proclaimed by President Barak Obama in 2010 as the National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day.

Click HERE for More Information>>> (PDF File)

(Posted 6/7/13)

Announcing KWVA's 2013 60th Anniversary Memorial Fundraiser

Lend a hand to your association by buying $20 fund-raising tickets.  Each $20 ticket gives you a chance to win one of three super prizes:

First prize is an 100% Operational one-of-a-kind M1 Garand rifle

Second prize is $2,500 in cash

Third prize is $1,500 in cash

Tickets will be mailed on February 5, 2013 to all Member’s addresses.  To enter this exciting fund-raiser, complete the enclosed order form and mail back to the Membership Office.

The Deadline for ticket donations is July 15, 2013.

Drawing will be held and the Winner announced July 27, 2013 at the National Membership Meeting in Washington DC in July. You need not be present to win.

Click HERE for More Details and additional Entry Forms

The KWVA Fund Raising Committee THANKS YOU for your support!

IF YOU HAVE EVER SERVED IN KOREA 1945 to PRESENT...
(or served outside of Korea June 25, 1950 to Jan. 31, 1955)
Then YOU QUALIFY and WE WANT YOU to join as a Member
of the Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.,
our Federally Chartered Veterans Service Organization!

How to Join

Welcome to the official website of the Korean War Veterans Association, Inc. The site is DYNAMIC, ever-changing, to keep the membership and all Veterans of Korea, 1945 until now, informed of America’s oldest and largest association of Korea Veterans. You will find new material each time you visit the site: come often, browse widely, and come again soon! We encourage all users to check out the various links on our site to useful and helpful information for veterans, their families, educators, and the public.

List of Recently Joined NEW MEMBERS...
Click HERE to View


Check Your National KWVA Membership Status Online:
Click HERE


Members continue to subscribe to the Code of Conduct... Have YOU??
View the List of Subscribers...
(Now over 500 names; page loads slow, please be patient!)
See Steve Szekely's article in the Jan/Feb 2010 Graybeards...

News... Stories... Topics of Interest to KWVA Members and Friends...
(Note: Please scroll down for many more stories not listed here...)

Archive of EARLIER Home Page Stories by Date and Subject...



Special Announcement...

KWVA National President James Ferris has resigned his position effective midnight May 18, 2013 “due to circumstances both personal and professional.” 1st Vice President Larry Kinard will assume leadership of the organization in his absence. A small group of Board members is being organized to assist with this transition.

The excellent leadership that Jim Ferris has provided KWVA, over many years, will not soon be forgotten. We wish both he, and his lovely wife Felice, many years of health and happiness.

Larry Kinard, 1st Vice President
Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.

(Posted 5/20/13)

Access Hollywood special performance: Veteran James McEachin's Moving Memorial Day Tribute: 'A Soldier's Paean'

In honor of Memorial Day, silver star and purple heart veteran of the Korean War and accomplished actor James McEachin joins Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Access Hollywood Live to give a moving tribute to his fellow veterans through a special performance...

Watch the Video Tribute>>

(Posted 5/27/13)

 

Memorial Day 2013 at the Washington DC Korean War Memorial

 


Help Us Get HR 318 Passed to Authorize the
"Wall of Remembrance" to be added to our Korean War Memorial...

There are not yet enough co-sponsors to HR 318.  We need MORE KWVA members 'hassling' their Representatives to get on board and co-sponsor it.  Time is of the essence if we are to win this, get it constructed and dedicated 27 July 2013.  Your help is needed and is very much appreciated.

The easiest and quickest way to get your Congressional Representative's attention is to "sign" our On-Line Petition...
Click HERE to view Col (Ret) Bill Weber's video about the "Wall" and to sign the Petition!

Click HERE to see a copy of the Bill and list of current co-sponsors
(Direct from the "Library of Congress Thomas Site")

Click HERE to view the Full Color informational flyer (PDF)

Sincerely,
Col William E. Weber (USA - Ret.), Chairman,
Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation, Inc.
10301 McKinstry Mill Rd, New Windsor, MD 21776
www.koreanwarvetsmemorial.org
Phone: 410-775-7733  Email: eagle187@hughes.net

(Posted 4/23/12, Updated 2/3/13)

Australia Dept. of Veteran Affairs 60th Commemoration Website

The Australia Dept. of Veteran Affairs has just created the following website commemorating the Korean War which may be of interest.

http://korean-war.commemoration.gov.au/

The central photo on the home page is Temporary Corporal Donald Davie 4/158, 3RAR, 23/24 April 1951. Corporal Davie thumbs 10 rounds into his Lee Enfield .303 rifle from stripper clips, while giving covering fire for "B" Company, 3RAR, during their advance on a spur near Hill 614. Private "Slim" Madden was captured during these vicious battles at Kapyong.

(Posted 2/23/13)


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The May/June, 2013 of The Graybeards
was mailed Wednesday, June 19... look for your copy soon!!

Click the following links for a preview... (PDF Files)

(Posted 6/19/13)

Give a deserving Korea Veteran a Gift Membership...

If you have a friend or family member that served in Korea and is eligible to be a KWVA member, you can easily give him/her a "Gift Membership"... simply fill out the Application with all the required information for them, then sign it yourself in the designated area as the "gift giver" and mail it to the Membership Office, along with the required payment shown on the application.

The new member will receive a membership card, a "Welcome Packet" from the Membership Office, and begin receiving the Graybeards magazine!

 

Read More>>

(Posted 10/27/12)

 
ATTENTION ALL CHAPTERS:

FREE BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR TELL AMERICA PROGRAMS

“Notice”—We have begun to receive more of the Korean books, “Korean War-Education for Students.” The Korean Embassy in Washington DC has generously supplied us with an additional 5000 that I will be mailing to the Tell America chapters who will use them in the school systems when they make their presentations.

At this point I am trying to limit each chapter to 50 so I can spread them to as many chapters as possible. We recommend that the books be given to the teachers in the schools for them to use in studies about Korea and the war.  The good part is that the KWVA will mail these packages of books “Postage free” to the active Tell America chapters so it will not require any repayment of shipping and handling.

You may request these books by contacting me at 682-518-1040 or larry.kinard@yahoo.com and supplying me with your Chapter number and mailing address.

Larry Kinard
2nd VP National Tell America Chairman

(Posted 4/3/12)

Korean War Veterans Digital Memorial

"The creation of the Korean War Veterans Digital Memorial (KWVDM) emerges as a first-of-its-kind project seeking to permanently preserve, unedited, the first-hand memories, experiences, and artifacts of our Korean War Veterans in an effort to pass them down to future generations."

Click HERE to visit the website

Click HERE for more information on how the Korean War Veterans Digital Memorial was created (PDF)

(Posted 1/12/12)


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Parade Magazine (11/6/11 Issue) Special Article "Heroes Among Us"... Six Wars, Six Vets, Six Stories of Courage Features KWVA Member Vartkess Tarbassian

Click HERE to view the story on the Parade Website

Click HERE to view the Parade INTERVIEWS on YouTube

<< Picture: Colin Powell with (clockwise from left) Tom Corey, Yonas Hagos, Tracy Garner, Sarah Letts-Smith, Vartkess Tarbassian, Bob Kessler.  [Photo: Peter Yang]

(Posted 11/13/11)

Need extra copies of a past or current issues of The Graybeards?

Sheila at the KWVA Membership Office can help you.  We have lots of old copies of many issues going back to 2004.

Back copies are $2.00 each plus postage - First Class Postage for one copy is $2.32, total of $4.32.

Need more than one copy?  Generally USPS Priority Mail is the cheapest and Sheila can give you a quote.

Email or call Sheila for more information on what is available or to order:

Email: membership@kwva.org
Phone: 217-345-4414

(Don't forget, PDF copies of ALL back issues of The Graybeards are available on the KWVA Website... Click HERE!)

(Posted 1/26/11, Revised 3/26/13)

ANNOUNCEMENT...

Please send ALL Member Information Changes to the KWVA Membership Office...

  • Change of Address
  • "Snowbird" Fall and Spring move dates/address changes
  • Phone Number Change/Update
  • Email Address Changes/Additions
  • Death Notices (including date of death)
  • New Member Applications
  • Dues Renewal Payments

Email to:  membership@kwva.org
"Snail" Mail to: KWVA Membership Office
PO Box 407
Charleston, IL  61920-0407
Phone: 217-345-4414


KWVA Lapel Pins and Patches For Sale

Members desiring to purchase distinctive copyrighted items for Korea war and Korea service veterans may now purchase items from the National Membership Office.

Newly available items are lapel pins and the alternative sew-on patch (see below).

Click HERE for Ordering Information

 


NEW PIN


PATCH

 

(Posted 7/6/07, updated 11/25/07)


New Recruiting Mail-Out/Hand-Out Flyer Available

The new Recruiting Flyer is available... it is designed to be printed on a 8-1/2 x 11 size paper in Color.  It includes a complete Membership Application as part of the flyer.

PDF File    MS Publisher Version

NOTE:  Most printers can print from the PDF File (Most don't use or have Publisher)

(Posted 12/19/07, Revised 9/7/08)



(Posted 9/5/05
Poster Revised
1/21/07)

RECRUITING!
Attention All Chapters,
Departments, Members:

"KWVA Wants You" Recruiting Poster...

Download the Recruiting Ad, insert your own address and telephone number(s) and place in papers and on local TV.

Click to view the complete poster----->

For a larger "Poster View" suitable for printing, click the link below:

1055x1430-300dpi JPG (picture) File
OR
1055x1430-300dpi PDF File
Note: Most printers prefer the PDF file

Click HERE for information on how to join us.

(Original poster Courtesy Jamie L. Burnell, Granddaughter of KWVA member Ed Bicknell)


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MEMORIAL OF OUR MEMBERS

Perpetual...

Founder William T. Norris, LC00001, June 20, 1997

Honorary President Raymond G. Davis MOH, MH00008, September 3, 2003


In January 2005, the President of the KWVA established that death notices of present or former directors, national officers, and department presidents would be placed on the website for thirty days. All reports of deaths of members are published in The Graybeards, when reported, and the Memorial List of those who have departed since the last National Convention are placed on a Memorial List awaiting the next Convention. Well done, honored comrades.

Click HERE to view our "In Memoriam" page of ALL Members that have passed away.


Join Us...

The members of the Board of Directors and I cordially invite Korea veterans of all eras to join the KWVA so that you can receive the membership benefit of issues of the organization's official magazine, The Graybeards, published six times a year and is occasionally supplemented with newsletters between issues. (Non-Korea veterans are also welcome to join the KWVA as associate members.)

In our newsletters, and on THIS Website, you will find the most current KWVA news, updates on issues of importance to Korean War veterans, reunion notices, POW/MIA updates, book reviews, veterans' memoirs, and much more.

James Ferris, President, KWVA

Click HERE for information on how to join us.
 


The official contact person for the national KWVA is: Frank Cohee, Secretary, KWVASec@gmail.com. Phone 863-859-1384. Mr. Cohee is a resident of Florida, and thus is on Eastern Time.


Archive of EARLIER Home Page Stories...

Stories and news releases of interest to Korea veterans are published regularly on the KWVA website Home Page.
CLICK THIS LINK to go to the list of Previous Stories by Date and Subject.


THE MISSION OF THE KWVA/USA is
DEFEND our Nation
CARE for our Veterans
PERPETUATE our Legacy
REMEMBER our Missing and Fallen
MAINTAIN our Memorial
SUPPORT a free Korea


Appearance from time-to-time of non-KWVA notices, opinions, products, and services hereon are offered as a service to our members and friends, and does not constitute agreement with or an endorsement by the KWVA or any of its officers, officials or employees. News items are selected as pertaining to the Mission of the Association.

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In Memoriam
FULL Database Listing of Members who have passed away.
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