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The KWE's application for a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council was denied today. The website will remain askew until someone or some company believes in us enough to help fund content not yet transferred from the old site to the new one. Meanwhile, we're still plugging away and trying our best.
Our newest life member is Rich Kolb of Missouri. Half of his $100 membership was placed in the General Operating Fund and the other half was added to the KWE's Endowment Fund. Welcome, Rich!
Thanks to new donations to the KWE, we continue the slow but steady process of migrating the "old" KWE website onto the "new" KWE website. Included in the donors are Maureen Deaver Purcell of Indiana ($100), Irving Scott of Indiana ($500), and Ruth Ann Scott of West Virginia ($500). We appreciate the three of you so much!
We are heartened to give our readers updated news about the changes to the KWE that are currently occurring behind the scenes of this website. Two financial gifts (one in December and one in March) from Sheila Kronenberger in Southern Illinois enabled us to send $1,000 to the Cloud Carpenter web design company. As a result, one of his employees is now assigned to move the KWE's Memoirs over to the new server. Meanwhile, Lynnita is taking baby steps to learn how to make updates, transfer text and create new pages. While doing that, Lynnita has also been concentrating on adding numerous Silver Star citations to the website. James Blackwell of Virginia sent $100 to help the KWE continue to grow. Merry Helm, a Korean War researcher in Washington State, became a life member and concurrently sent us several Silver Star citations. Tonight we received a $500.00 PayPal contribution from Donald Hall in Maryland. We've got a long way to go and we still need an influx of money for this big transition, but things are getting brighter for the KWE's future. Many thanks to everyone who is making the impossible possible!
We are grateful to James Blackwell of Virginia for gifting $100 to the KWE. The money was placed in the General Operating Fund of the KWE. Thank you so much, James.
Do you have a short story about Korea? Send it our way! We have recently opened a short story section on the KWE's Memoirs page. Lynnita's e-mail address is [Please enable JavaScript.]. Her U.S. mail is Lynnita Brown, 111 E. Houghton St., Tuscola, IL 61953. Be sure to include a picture of yourself to go along with the story. Sending more than one picture is okay, too.
It has come to our attention that quite a lot of Korean War history is being lost needlessly because one particular aspect of the many unique opportunities available to veterans through the Korean War Educator is little known. The KWE exists to educate the public about the Korean War--at no cost to Korean War veterans. Here is what is happening that doesn't need to happen:
Individual Korean War veterans and Korean War veteran reunion groups often have small, medium and large websites on the Internet. Unfortunately, as the veterans age and financial resources to stay online dry up, these informative websites are being pulled off the Internet one by one and the history found on them is being lost forever.
Please spread the word that the Korean War Educator's "Topics" page can absorb these increasingly-disappearing websites at no cost. All you have to do is turn the text and photographs over to the KWE for permanent posting on the Korean War Educator. Naturally, a little money to help make the transaction would always be welcome, but it is most certainly not mandatory. The KWE is a free service to Korean War veterans and always will be--no strings attached. How does one move a Korean War-related website over to the KWE? Simple. Contact us!
Well, dear friends, the Korean War Educator's New Year 2024 isn't starting off the greatest. We have received word of the life-threatening health condition of our beloved webmaster, Jim Doppelhammer. Co-partnering with Lynnita since 2004 to make the KWE a tremendous educational resource, Jim tells us that his health has failed so much he must give up his work with the KWE and close his computer business. The new company handling the hosting and technical support for the KWE is CloudCarpenter. Because the old website was built using FrontPage software from 2003 (over 20 years old!), it is not feasible to maintain and must be migrated to their modern webhosting platform. As a result, our readers will see some drastic changes to the Korean War Educator in the coming weeks and months. All of the information and photographs will still exist, but the site will take on a more modern look that promises to be easier to navigate and user friendly. This is not going to come easy financially or emotionally for the KWE's unpaid staff of one (Lynnita, who is "tech-challenged"), but it must be done. Say a few prayers for Jim and the Korean War Educator, and donate financially if you can as this unexpected transition takes place. Have patience, tell us about any glitches you see, and watch a changing Korean War Educator develop. In the meantime, here are a couple of facts that our readers should know about the KWE: Currently this website has 9,696 files providing 1,439,428 Kilobytes of educational material about the Korean War to its visitors. The site also features 5,549 pictures. As you can see, the KWE is not a puny little website--it's massive! It is very much worth the time, effort and money that has been put into it over its lifespan. Korean War veterans deserve the best the World Wide Web has to offer, and we aim to please! - Lynnita