On the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, vets urge remembrance
June 25, 2020 Ileana Najarro - Tampa Bay Times
Retired Army Lt. Col. William “Bill†Slavins made a plaque for his home in Seminole a few years ago to memorialize the men from his company who were lost in combat one night in the Korean War.
It was June 13, 1952. Enemy fire was strong on what was known as T-Bone Hill. Slavins remembers an explosion, the feeling of his body lifting up into the air from the blast, and then landing back on the ground. His left ankle was behind his left shoulder.
It was the injury that sent Slavins back to the U.S. for treatment. It was the battle that took his men’s lives. It was a war that Slavins, 92, and others hope that people will remember.
“It shows how we helped other countries,†Slavins said.
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