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MIKE HARDEN: Korean War reservists' thoughts turn to younger soldiers

9th Sep 2005, 20:37 GMT

(SH) - "All I wanted to do was play basketball," Paul Barnett recalls of joining a Columbus, Ohio, Marine Corps Reserve unit in the spring of 1950. A three-sport athlete and North High School graduate, he had been the Marine Reserve company in Columbus had a stellar group of round-ball players. Barnett, now a resident of Powell, Ohio, had no idea that signing up would earn him a ticket to Korea.