Word: shadricks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays at the front most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week...
...Lucille Shadrick, a thin and bony woman, left the table, sobbing. Theodore Shadrick stared stonily, pondering the news that the fourth oldest of his six sons and four daughters was gone. "He was the best there was," said Theodore finally. "Never caused us a mite of worry...
Soon everybody in the mountain miners' hamlet of Skin Fork, W.Va. - about 150 people - had heard the news that put their home town on the U.S. front pages: Private Kenneth Shadrick, 19, of Skin Fork, was the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the battle for Korea...
Last week, Private Kenny Shadrick and his buddies were a bazooka squad in a graveyard near the town of Sojong, close to the advancing North Korean Reds. Kenny aimed a bazooka rocket at an enemy tank, counted three while the rocket lobbed toward the target, then stuck his head & shoulders above the gun pit to watch. The tank's machine gun chattered and Kenny Shadrick tumbled backward, a bullet through his right arm, another through his chest...
...neighbors dropped in on the Shadricks to speak their sympathy and leave quietly. It was the newspapermen from out of town who asked the fancy questions. What was Kenny fighting for? "Against some kind of government," said Theodore Shadrick simply. Where was Korea? He didn't know-out there somewhere, where his boy had been killed...