By Norma Dittman
Murray County News staff writer
A Korean POW/MIA Traveling Memorial Wall was set up in the Fulda High School gymnasium on Monday to help social studies students understand the true impact and sacrifices of war.
Jonathan Curry, Fulda High School Social Studies teacher said, “We have just studied the Korean War and are now beginning to study the Vietnam War. The traveling wall is to help give a better understanding of the history of the Korean War.”
Curry had his students view the Korean wall throughout the day on Tuesday.
The Korean POW/MIA Traveling Memorial Wall is a project organized and commissioned by Leo Voss of Fulda to honor the prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died off of the battlefields during that war.
Voss has spent 50 years in researching those soldiers who were classified as MIA, KIA, NBD, and POW during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He holds a vast compilation of names, along with the soldiers’ ranks and branches, units, dates of birth, dates of loss, countries of loss, loss coordinates, missions and other personnel involved.
He began his research shortly after returning from Vietnam in 1967. He was in the United States Marines and served in Vietnam from 1966-1967. His interest in learning what had happened to soldiers who were prisoners of war led to his many years of research and the compilation of names that have been placed on the three traveling walls that he has commissioned to have made.
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