[KS] Re: General Uh Je-yeon

Michael Goodwin mgoodwin at greenvillenc.com
Mon May 29 17:58:22 EDT 2000


Thomas:

What a gorgeous and highly informative web site you have designed!

Mike Goodwin
(Toronto, CA and Greenville, NC)

Thomas Duvernay wrote:

> This past weekend, my son and I attended the jesa for General Uh Je-yeon,
> the Korean commander in 1871, on Kanghwa Island.  Also in attendance was Mr.
> James Wardrop (59; he likes to be called 'Jamie') , the great-great nephew
> of Lt. Hugh McKee (USN; one of three US KIA in the 1871 action); the meeting
> between Jamie and the General's grandson (Uh Yoon-won, 85) went very well
> (Mr. Uh stuck close to Jamie all day).  You may or may not have seen the
> story about it on SBS this morning (about three minutes long); my interview
> evidently went on the cutting room floor :-(  Oh, well...
>
> Thomas
> http://www.ncmc.cc.mi.us/esl/1871/index.html
>
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