Walter Smead was finally laid to rest Monday near his rural upstate New York hometown, seven decades after he was killed in the Korean War and months after his remains were officially accounted for with help from DNA analysis.
Korean War veteran Army Cpl. Walter Smead, a member of Battery A, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division who was killed during the 1950 Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, arrives in a hearse to be laid to rest with full military honors at Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, in Schuylerville, N.Y. Korean War veteran Army Cpl.
“We do not want to leave anyone behind,” said Michael Hoag, state commander of the New York Veterans of Foreign Wars. Wolff, who is Douglas Smead’s daughter, knows her uncle through stories, military records and old photos.
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