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Bo Blasingame

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En route to Korea, Bo Blasingame and his fellow green officers learned of the death of Josef Stalin and began to despair. Their youthful worry was that the war would be over before they got their own taste of battle. (7:52)

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Bo Blasingame became a frequent leader of night patrols from the entrenched lines near the Imjin River in Korea. One night, approaching a Chinese outpost, he underwent a “baptism of fire.” (3:42)

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When Bo Blasingame was there, the lines were close and fixed in the mountainous terrain of Korea. This meant that in addition to going undetected by the nearby Chinese, you had some pretty serious mountains to climb. (4:14)

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Platoon leader Bo Blasingame’s day could be mundane, like inspecting feet for frostbite, or it could be very tense, like watching the battle of Pork Chop Hill rage nearby. (6:13)

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It was in Korea that Bo Blasingame decided on the Army as a career, but it wasn’t his experience as a platoon leader that convinced him. It was becoming a personnel officer that made him interested in the organizational side of the military. (2:51)

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After his tour in Korea, Bo Blasingame attended a seminary and re-entered service as a chaplain. He was back in the thick of battle with a different mission, this time with the 1st Cavalry in Vietnam. (7:54)

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Vietnam was alive with animal life according to chaplain Bo Blasingame. Aside from the pythons, the tarantulas and the pet mongoose, there was a bird in a banyan tree that had a habit of making a noise that sounded like an obscenity during services. (3:10)

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Seeing napalm used on Chinese troops in Korea began the transformation of gung ho infantry officer Bo Blasingame into a chaplain with a pacifist outlook. Still, his sympathies are always with the soldiers. (3:20)

Bo Callaway

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Bo shares his experiences in combat and how he survived the brutal weather with the help of his mother's gifts. (5:33)

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Bo discusses his experiences while defending the Ali River in China during his combat career. (7:13)