The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 3 - November 14, 2007
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A Veteran's Story
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After we settled into our room I told Kathie that I was going to drive across the street to
By Newscaster Correspondant Sally Price
the McDonalds I saw coming in and get a hamburger and fries. We had tuned the Rutgers/
Veterans were honored in various ways Sunday and Monday. Sunday was the tradi-
South Florida game on the television so she decided to watch the game while I retrieved some
tional date for Veterans Day and Monday the government delcared holiday.
food. The McDonalds had just closed.
This is the story of one of our Koren War Veterans. Floyd C Craig of Inglis grew up
I decided to venture a little further down the road and try and find a fast food place that
in Eaton Ohio and lost his mother at age 12. Without telling his father, Craig left at a young
was open. After driving in circles for what seemed like a long time, I did finally find a drive-in
age, traveling to Richmond Indiana. He signed up for the Army Air Corp.(in 1947 the name
that was still serving and managed to get a hamburger for me but, they didn't have a chicken
changed to the U S Air Force) as age 18. He signed up again after the Korean War started with
Caesar salad which is what Kathie wanted.
the Far East Command Infantry Division un-
I became slightly disoriented on the way back and after traveling about 100 feet or so in
assigned. "I was looking for combat duty and
the wrong direction on a deserted one-way street I finally saw the Crowne Plaza. Getting back
I got it" Craig said. Craig, after a 24 hour plane
to it was not a piece of cake. I had no trouble getting to the hotel the first time around but, it
ride, arrived in Korea with the 38th Infantry
was almost like they changed directions of the traffic lanes while I was out getting a ham-
Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division which was
burger. After surrounding the building twice I finally navigated my way into the parking lot.
the heavy weapons infantry.
A group of home builders that were at the hotel for a convention were outside the hotel
Twice wounded and taken as a POW,
having a mini-party. When I got out of the car one of them assured me that I was not the only
Craig was one of 5 captured, 4 others were
person who had trouble making their way to the hotel.
from different units. Craig said when they were
I missed all but the last seconds of the Rutgers/Bulls game and when I walked in the room
captured, if he had not been shot in the leg
I expected my dear wife to be a bit on edge because I was gone so long. Silly me. She was into
and shoulder he would have gotten out. They
the football game and didn't notice I was gone I guess. She was disappointed, however when
were captive 30 days in which time he lost 45
I told her the drive-in didn't have a salad so she would have to settle for the chicken fingers
pounds. He said they were fed a gruel type
I brought her.
mush and were never beaten. Craig said,
We wanted to get an early start the next morning. We were about six hours from our hotel
"while we were being moved to the enemy
in Lexington and we were hoping to see some fall foliage in Tennessee and Kentucky before
main supply line, our marines were making a
we reached our hotel.
push north and we as POW's were in their
We retired for the night around midnight, but I told Kathie I really had a notion to join the
area of incoming fire. When our men started
homebuilder's party down in the parking lot. They were having a fun time. Kathie said she
shelling, the enemy went down in root cellars
was going to bed but if I went be sure and remember how to get back to the room. I decided
where the vegetables were stored to save their
one adventure was enough for the night and went to bed.
hide. We escaped and headed south, still in
our tattered uniforms, where we met with the
Floyd Craig, Korean War Veteran,POW
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South Korean, Republic of Korea. We came
out under our own artillery fire. I don't remember anything after that."
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In Japan Craig was transferred from the Osaka hospital to the Tokyo hospital. He
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was in the hospital 9 months, then reassigned to rebuild the 34 Infantry Regiment colors.
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Their headquarters were totally taken over and the enemy captured our flag (Taking over our
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