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>> Grandpa Ken, when did you first go to Korea? When did you first go to Korea?
>> Why?
>> I have so much stuff.
>> Because I joined the Army to go there.
>> I have so much stuff [INAUDIBLE].
>> And when?
>> Right at the beginning of the war?
>> In 1950?
>> Yeah, in that time, in, around that time, yeah.
>> But you also fought in the World War II.
>> World War II, yeah.
>> So how old were you?
>> Sixteen and a half.
>> When you went to World War II?
>> When I to World War II, yeah. I was 16 years, 16 years old.
>> How old were you when you went to Korea? They recruited soldiers that young, when you were sixteen?
>> I guess I aged about 3 years or 4 years. I don’t know, but no. I went to Korea when I was … not Korea. I went … When I first joined the Army [INAUDIBLE] going right there. I lied like heck about my age.
>> You lied about your age?
>> Yeah. Well, see I told them I was 19.
>> Why did you want to join the Army when you were 16?
>> Sixteen, yeah.
>> You were a baby.
>> I told them I was 19, and I got in that way, and I was only 16, 16 1/2 when I got into action.
>> So when you went to Korea when you were I guess 19, 20?
>> I was about 16, yeah.
>> No, in Korea.
>> Wasn’t 16 when I went to Korea. Then I joined the Korean fun … The Korean war, I had already been in one war, and then that was my second war.
>> So how old were you?
>> Well, I started out, I was 16.
>> No, in Korea. How old were you when you were …
>> I would be about … Oh, I don’t know, 18, 19 if I was that old.
>> Okay.
>> I’m not sure of the age now. I forget everything. I do, and it’s a son of a gun. I can’t remember anything. Surely …
>> Well, you …
>> … [INAUDIBLE] stuff.
>> Well, what is your name?
>> So I spent time in World War II. Then when the Korean War broke out, I joined right up there with them.
>> What is your first … When you went to Korea, what was your first impression? What do you remember about the Korean War?
>> Korean War, well, going there and in a foreign land, foreign people to talk to and that, and it was just like anything else. You go, and you get used to it.
>> What do you remember from …
>> Well, I remember getting there and meeting other people and being ready for action, and I got wounded there, and when I back in the war again, I got wounded a second time, and nothing serious, but a wound was there. The first war I went to, I got everything, got all the paperwork done. I would sit there, and my mother said, “I’m going to have you withdrawn, tell them your age,” and I said, “Don’t bother. I’ll run away, and you won’t know where I am,” and that stopped her, so I went over there. I was in France, Belgium, Holland and all those places during World War II, and then when the Korean War broke out, I was there for that, and that’s it.
>> Have you been back to Korea?
>> I’ve never been back, no.
>> Yeah, you went back once.
>> Once, I guess, yeah.
>> Yeah, you were back once with me.
>> What year? When?
>> It was 2003, I think.
>> I forget what I was doing yesterday. I’m telling you. It’s tough.
>> We’re all getting older.
>> Yeah, damn right.
>> Getting older.
>> Oh, Jesus.
>> It’s okay. I forget too. Sometimes, I forget too.
>> I forget what I ate for dinner. You ask me what I had for lunch yesterday …
>> Exactly.
