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Acknowledgements

Thanks for their candour, patience, and insights goes to Kapyong veterans Charles Petrie, Kim Reynolds, Rollie Lapointe, Al Lynch, John Bishop, Mike Czuboka, Don Hibbs, Murray Edwards, Bill Chrysler, Alex Sim, Smiley Douglas, Bob Menard, Bill White, Bernie Cote, Ron Rushton, and Hub Gray, who has donated many of his Korean War photographs to the PPCLI Archives and Museum in Calgary and his personal Kapyong documents and letters to the Military Museums, Library and Archives, University of Calgary.

And special thanks for their special guidance and help to: Colonel Walt Ford, United States Marine Corps; William Johnson, Historian, Department of National Defence; military scholars David Bercuson and Jack Granatstein; Marjorie Levy; Don Levy; Korean veteran and war artist Ted Zuber; Maggie Arbour-Doucette, Jane Naisbitt, and Susan Ross of the Canada War Museum; Dora Winter of Library and Archives Canada; John Wright and Donna Zambory of Military Museums, Library and Archives, University of Calgary; military author and historian Mark Zuehlke; Vince Courtenay of the Korea Veterans Association of Canada; and Korean War PPCLI veteran and journalist, Peter Worthington.

Ivan Duguay, a Canadian who lectures at Semyung University in South Korea, has made a hobby of exploring the battlefield and his descriptions of Kapyong today provide a great sense of place.

My editor at Dundurn Press, Jennifer McKnight, turned what I feared could have been an agonizing process into a delightfully pleasant and smooth collaboration.

Also appreciation to PPCLI Regimental Major Harpel Mandaher, and to Regimental Adjutant Captain Richard Dumas in Edmonton for making available many photographs from the PPCLI archives, and also the Kapyong article by Lieutenant Colonel Owen Browne.

Much gratitude to friends and former colleagues at the CBC: Eric Foss, Manmeet Ahluwalia, and Peter Mansbridge.

Adrienne Clarkson took a deep personal interest in this story, which is reflected in her touching foreword.

Susan Papp started it all rolling by introducing me to the people at Dundurn Press, who took to the Kapyong story from the start.

When the author was an officer cadet at the School of Infantry in Camp Borden Ontario in the early 1960s, his platoon commander was Lieutenant Don Ardelian, a distinguished PPCLI veteran of the fighting in Korea. It was Ardelian who first planted the seeds of the Kapyong story, a half century ago. He died in June 2010.

And finally, and especially, to Nance who’s been pleading with me for years to write this story, and had faith in the Kapyong tale long before I was convinced there was such a thrilling tale to tell.