Gordon Gammack

...War Correspondent: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam

He is always on my mind. Today. Yesterday. And tomorrow.

I was a few weeks old when this photograph was taken in 1950 and only 24 when he died. Dad did not talk about the three wars he covered; certainly, not scenes like the one pictured here.

Oh, how I wish I’d had more time—so many questions.

My thoughts are with those fighting to preserve a fragile democracy and the journalists who tell their stories.

Bodies of some 400 Korean civilians lie in and around trenches in Taejon’s prison yard during the Korean War in Sept. 1950. The victims were bound and slain by retreating Communist forces before the 24th U.S. Division troops recaptured the city on Sept. 28. Witnesses said that the prisoners were forced to dig their own trench graves before the slaughter. Looking on, at left, is Gordon Gammack, war correspondent of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. (AP Photo/James Pringle) #