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We want to tell you about the latest happenings for the Korean War Educator. Over the last several months Lynnita has researched and added dozens of military airplane crash fatalities on our Airplane Crashes pages. We need our readers' help on this, so if you have a computer and some spare time, we encourage you to visit the Airplane Crashes index and click on "Incomplete Listings Challenge." Maybe you can find what we can't. Meanwhile, history department volunteers are working in conjunction with Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois, to continue the important work of documenting the memoirs of Korean War veterans collected over the years by Lynnita. In addition, the KWE's webmaster is working with AI to migrate the remainder of our existing Korean War memoirs from the old site to the new one. Every single day our efforts to recognize and honor Korean War veterans continue on with determination.
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