Partnership with the Korean Veterans Asso. Southern Branch

We're partnering with the Korean Veterans Association Southern Branch. We experience and learn a lot from serving with them.

Every year, the Korean Veterans Association Southern Branch hosts a commemoration ceremony of the Korean War, and our members were there to help organize the event and provide support to the elderly veterans. In addition, all of the students handwritten cards and presented those cards to the veterans for their service to our country (South Korea).

We had a special experience this year. David Paul Sluder, who was killed in action in the Korean War, was found after 73 years and his ashes were genetically matched to his daughter, who is now 73 years old. We traveled 14 hours to Tennessee to attend a repatriation ceremony. His ashes were repatriated to the United States to be reunited with his family. Our members wrote a thank you card to his 73-year-old daughter and delivered it along with a small traditional Korean gift. We could not imagine how excruciating it must be for her, whose father was killed in action, whose mother never remarried, and who grew up without a father and never met him. Once again, we were reminded that “freedom cannot be bestowed. It must be achieved.”