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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Community WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 2000 7 Korean war veterans national museum The Korean War Veterans Na- Domestic Blitz tional Museum and Library planned for construction in By Dixie Brunner Corn eaters everywhere - lend me your ears The debate has been boiling consumption. for years. Tis it nobler to consume your corn down the row, or circle around the cob? No matter which earing preference you purport, youre bound to have some preju- diced pone-eategiving you an earful. Corn on the cob is a piece of rs Americana. The fruit of the field is a welcome rite of late summer. Whats supposed to measure knee high by the Fourth of July in the Midwest, should also be shucked, boiled and sitting on the supper table by August. Corn eating has acquired some accessories through the years. You can stay buttered-u- p with a handy, com butter brush. Gone the days when you plopped the ear down on a stick of butter, leaving a hidden corn kernel or two for the next unsuspecting muffin butterer. Dont forget about the handy com dish you can stalk out at local discount stores, four for a dollar. Your neighbors will be The method is simple. Take said hot ear of corn; butter, salt and pepper it, and then eat about a three kernel row down the length of the ear. You know youre getting the rhythm when youre able to imagine yourself a typewriter, typing a sentence. When the imaginary bell rings (at the ears end), you go back and start a new row. Some less couth people eat right back down the row, but they dont posses a kernel of integrity. In weeding out the best com eating methods, Id be remiss in not mentioning circling the cob. This is where you rotate around the cob, until youve consumed all kernels in sight. Its my per-ar- e sonal opinion those who circle the cob, retain most of what theyve eaten right there in their teeth. As a disclaimer however, I must admit that I have no scientific data to support my hypothesis, My husband is a very efficient sort. Naturally, he would em- - Tis it nobler to consume your com down the row, or circle around the cob? green with envy, when they see ploy a corn eating method which would be very practical and well those cheap plastic e dishes adorning your thought out. I first circle around the two ends of the ear, and then I eat down the row for the remainder of the corn. ear-of-co- m- look-alik- innovations pre- - These great ventfthe butter from getting on hands, rolling down your arms and dripping off your el- bows. But they always cause alot of conflict at our house. I always lose them in my organized (ahem) junk drawer. Every time we have sweet com there is a mad dash to retrieve that one pathetic little com skewer. You behind the know the one-it- s never-use- d Tupperware tea bag and strainer the rubber lid Why do you do that,I asked, obvious. You eat around two the ends, so you then have some place to hold onto. Once youve eaten the ends, then you can leisurely enjoy eating down the row without getting any but- ter on your fingers. The corn-eatin- g debate boils on. Tuscola, Illinois, will be among the first museums of national scope devoted entirely to the subject of one particular war. Along overdue-tributthe museum will be the only national repository in which to house artifacts such as books and manuscripts, maps and photographs, and military and civilian documents associated with the Korean War. The purpose ofthe KWVNM&L is to preserve a record of .he participation of the Untied States in the Korean War, to educate and disseminate information to the general public about the Korean War era and the country of South Korea, and to promote good relations and friendship among Korean War Veterans, the citizens of other United Nations allies who participated in the research, care for, and interpret e, three-dimension- Korean War information and artifacts for Korean War veterans, their descendants, and the general public. The primary objectives of the KWVNM&L are to build a museum facility, a library, and a convention center, to advertise throughout the United States, in South Korea, and in Allied Nations for outright donations (no permanent loans) of objects associated with the Korean War; and to hire museum professionals to catalog and preserve all donations. Veterans trying to locate those who served with them in various units will be assisted by a Korean War veterans registry. A nation-wid- e oral history project to tape the memoirs of Korean War veterans and DMZ veterans in the United States and throughout the world will also be one of the primary objectives of the museum and library. A research library will be established in the museum for books that relate per-It- s spectivesofthe American, Allied, mid the Korean War and DMZ eras, and their participants. Gen-yoeral public use of the library, as we as scholarly research, will be encouraged. Traveling educa- tional programs for schools wall be established, and visitation by school groups will be encouraged, . fund-raisin- Fund-raisin- non-profi- t, tax-exem- pt, "1 1 i I i Back-io-Sdio- ol 0c 1 Special 1 1 Oil any 'tv 1 I (must present coupon at time ofpurchase) Coupon expires Sept 2, 2000 1 1 J ur Gel Acquainted Special!! Come in and meet our full-tim- e - Alicia - nail technician Full Set $35 - Reg. $40, Fills $18 - Reg. $22 Creative Cuts Corn gourmets everywhere f War-relate- An award winning professional with many years of experience. opener. All this we do in preparation for the feast de resistance. agree com on the cob must be eaten down the row! There Ive taken a stand and plowed right into the issue. Easting down the row is the neatest, most efficient method of com al museum due to inability to pay admission fees), private and corals. porate donations, federal and The KWVNM&L incorporated state grants, bequeaths, and in the state of Illinois in J une of museum store proceeds. (Most of g efforts are the general operating fund, which 1998, and estab- covers postage, office supplies, The in currently progress. lishment of the KWVNM&L is and the like, is generated by memnot financially supported by fed- bership dues. Donation contribg for uted to the Wall ofRemembrance eral legislation. the museum and library is en- and Wall of Honor tile program tirely the responsibility of the go to the Building Fund.) The museum will not glorify board of trustees. Most of the funds will come from individual war. Instead, it will explain that and corporate sponsorship, and war has often been necessary to the sponsors will be recognized on safeguard freedom. The Korean inscribed tiles incorporated into War, considered by many to be the convention center walls. The The Forgotten War," successfully fedKWVNW&L is a secured freedom for the people of historic pres- South Korea and helped stop the erally ervation agency. Because inter- spread of communism. Impresest in the museum is not limited sive state and local Korean War to veterans, its membership is memorials have recently been built throughout the United open to the general public. The constitution of the organi- States, but the proposed zation includes a clause requir- KWVNM&L, centrally located on ing five (5) percent of all mem- a main transportation artery in bership dues to be set aside, in an area ofhigh tourism in Illinois, the Endowment Fund until the will have the power to educate the year 2000. Beginning in that general public about the Korean year, the amount increases to War in a wTay that no visit to a ten (10) percent. The convention statue or memorial can equal. For more information contact center fees will, for the most part be placed into the Endowment the Korean War Veterans NaFund to increase that permanent tional Museum and Library, P.O. funding base. The museum is Box 16, Tuscola, IL 6 1953. Phone or expected to receive numerous (217)253-581- 3 e reunion groups each year. Other Web-sitfunds to operate and maintain www.theforgottenvictory.org. the museum wall come from ad- Contact people: Sharon Corum mission fees (no person will be and Dorothy McCumber prevented from utilizing the kwmuseumadvancenet.neL A museum store will sell Korean d educational materi- 310 South 100 East Heritage Center Kanab, Utah 644-555- 2 II kl I ML |