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Show HOMESICK FOR THE ARMY .h Han Kook, Korean With Honorable Honor-able Record in the U. S. A., Returns to the Service. P.orn iu Korea, taken to Hawaii tvhen a child, without any trace of tJJ ;oJ relatives, an honorable hon-orable record in the United States army behind him, Ah Han Kook, a little brown man, called at the American Legion headquarters In Indianapolis the other day and declared de-clared his inten-1 inten-1 1 o n of "going back home" to the army. "I was a dental officer's assistant in San Francisco," Kook, private first class and specialist fourth class, medical medi-cal department, said, producing an honorable discharge to prove it. "The officer was Dr. H. C. Feyler, now of S22 Gay street, Portsmouth, O. He asked me to come to see him when I got out of the army. He is in private practice now. So when my enlistment expired in San Francisco, I got on a train and went to Portsmouth. The officer said he would like to have me work for him. He treated me very good and I had a pleasant visit -with him, but I got homesick. The army is the only home I know. I am a member mem-ber of the American Legion, Schofield Barracks, H. T., post No. 6, and I heard a lot about Legion headquarters headquar-ters in Indianapolis, so I thought I would like to see them." Kook was shown about the offices at Legion headquarters and the various vari-ous phases of the work explained to him. Then this little brown man, now an American citizen, who first entered military service In the National Guard at Hawaii in August, 1917, and continued con-tinued tile service through the national na-tional army and the regulars until May 26, 1922, departed for Fort Benjamin Ben-jamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, to re-enlist. re-enlist. "Sure, he was homesick for the army," the recruiting officer at the fort said later over the telephone. "We welcome him back." |