FRANKFVORT, Ky. (KT) – Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered flags at all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Monday, Oct. 21, in honor of a Kentucky soldier who died in the Korean War but whose remains were only identified this spring.
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Raymond E. Hall of Mountain Ash, Kentucky, was a member of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division He was killed in a battle with North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) forces in July 1950.
Hall had been captured by enemy forces and was being transported north with other POWs, when NKPA guards suddenly executed him and 65 other U.S. POWs in what would be called the “Suncheon Tunnel Massacre.” Read more about the incident and the process that was used to make the identification decades later here…