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Big Korean War exhibit planned at Waterloo museum district

Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2017

WATERLOO — Dwight Clark had a surprise for Gene Holmes under an olive-drab blanket.

It was something he hadn’t seen since he lugged one around in Korea in 1951. It was a flamethrower.

“Remember how much it weighed loaded?” Clark asked Holmes.

“Seventy-two pounds,” Holmes said, without hesitation.

“Oh boy. I hadn’t seen one of those on a long time,” Holmes said later.

Holmes served in a Marine unit in Korea. Clark served in the Marines in Vietnam. Both are part of the planning for a Korean War exhibit at the Grout Museum scheduled to open in July on the 64th anniversary of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 war — where forces on both sides are lined up across the 38th parallel from each other to this day....read the full article here.