Frank Kik

Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1947–1949
I spent three years in Korea and it was an exciting time in my life. With the Japanese occupying Korea, there were no maps, other than what the Japanese had. We used their maps to find key points and then build the U.S. maps. It was a profession; you weren't just a GI in the infantry. One thing I learned in the service that affected me all through the years was discipline.