Herm Jongsma

Herm Jongsma was born in the Chicago area1931. After completing high school, he attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hoping to be a science teacher, and was drafted into the Army in 1952. He trained as a light mechanic, but when he went to Korea, he found himself as a driver, and volunteered to be a liaison with the Greek battalion manning part of the front line north of Seoul. He spent the rest of his tour with them, enduring multiple attacks by the Chinse, warfare that he described as being much like World War I. After his discharge, he went back to school and did indeed become a science teacher.

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