Show Vets Administration I 1 Information Service A young oung Chinese American veteran of tho the Korean conflict conn ct is expecting 1952 to be Je his happiest of the past several years i You Yo cannot say literally that Nguey P. P Wong the veteran is looking for for- forward ward to 1952 bec 1052 because 1952 because use he was blinded I In battle battlo jn In Korea One One eye eye cye was blinded I altogether The other was hurt so badly t he was able to discern only vague glimmers of light t r I But he is happy happy because because he is now now nowa a successful businessman and he he has bas hopes of being reunited with his wife I and children 0 I I I I I I I Wong Vong has become the first In the United States to be rehabilitated under undera a vocational training program for dis dis- disabled disabled dis- dis disabled I Korean veterans Veterans Admin Admin- Administration Administration Administration has announced He recently I an intensive two months of of I completed training as manager of a a the on-the-job l I sized good cigar and refreshment ent stand lunder under a law that Congress passed a year j jago I Iago Iago ago and liberalized this fall I During that short time he be learned to conduct his entire business by sense of touch to make change correctly from I Ithe the feel of the coins to place his I I merchandise so he could reach It all I easily to keep inventory to place orders for items and ancl to do his own bookkeeping II ing lp ft Brale Braile But his training went far beyond the I I mechanics of doing business He also and I II received a course in salesmanship merchandising geared to the blinded By drawing on his Imagination he learned how to set up sales getting dis dIs- dis- dis plays And finally he was taught how I to deal with people on a a. to man-to-man basis even though he was unable to see I them His Instructors were officials of the I California Bureau of of Vocational Re Re- Rehabilitation ReI I habilitation who worked closely with I VA In carrying out the training course 1 Now that his training is over Wong Is at work full time tune as manager of a a- I bustling concession In the lobby of the VA regional office building In San 1 Francisco I Although gh he has been operating his ills stand alone for only a short 1 he I I already is clearing about a month 1 And that figure is 18 expected to jump I upward In the near future since other I II I tenants are planning to move Into the they I II buildings building's vacant space I Wong enlisted in the Army in 1946 I In San Francisco A few months later his unit was sent to China While sta sta- stationed stationed there he married a a ayoung young Chinese girl The couple had bad two chil chil- dren Then late In 1947 Wong transferred trans trans- transI I erred to the Occupation Forces In In i I I I I I i I I I Korea leaving his family In China I INot Not lOng long afterwards the Communists overran overran China and Wong lost all track of or his wife and children He made endless end end- endless endless I less attempts to trace them but met with a wall of silence In February 1950 his unit was transferred again this time to Okinawa Meanwhile his wife and children children made a miraculous escape through Communist Com Com- Communist lines and reached Hong Kong safely She had no way of knowing where whereto to reach her husband so 50 she wrote to a aI friend of his in San Francisco who I Immediately sent the good news on to the serviceman The corresponded I every day but they didn't get the chance to meet j I I Then late in June 1950 the conflict started started In Korea Once again Wong I found himself in that country this time lin in combat For two months he fought with United Nations forces and then it itI happened A hand grenade exploded In I I his face I I The Army sent him back to the United States He spent several months I in In an Army hospital on the West West Coast and was finally discharged Immediately afterwards he started his training He HeI didn't want to lose any time he ex explained I ex-I ex- ex explained he ho wanted to earn his own way as soon as possible looking forward to I the day when he might be reunited with his family which is still in Hong I Kong I The training program under which I II Wong enrolled is 18 available to veterans j disabled after June 27 1950 who meet II the following conditions 1 They I.-They They must have a discharge under under conditions other than dishonorable 2 They They must have a service connect ed connect-ed disability that would entitle them to VA compensation The disability might have occurred any place in the world and not necessarily In combat 3 They 3 They must he ce In need of training to overcome the handicap of ot the dis dis- ability |