Commemorative stamp now ready for delivery

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a commemorative stamp which recognizes the sacrifices of those who served during the Korean War.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the armistice that ended the hostilities.

A Korean War memorial features 19 stainless-steel statues of servicemen from the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. Shown marching in a wedge formation as if on patrol, these statues represent an ethnic cross section of the United States. The photograph on the stamp shows the memorial just before dawn and shrouded in heavy snow that fell during a storm in January, 1996.

On hand locally to celebrate the stamp were McMinnville postmaster Carl Tucker, retired postal employee and Korean War veteran Quill Briggs and Billy Fitts, a rural carrier and representative of Quality of Work Life-Employee Involvement team, who posed with a sheet of the newly issued stamps.

“This is important for the Korean War veterans,” said post office customer service supervisor Charles Bogle.

The stamps are currently on sale. Individual stamps are 37 cents, and a sheet of 20 is $7.40.

Also as a part of this issue of this commemorative stamp, the Quality of Work Life-Employee Involvement team made up of rural carriers from McMinnville, Rock Island, and Spencer post offices recently attempted to obtain as many names as possible of Korean War Veterans. A scroll was then made listing these names and is displayed at McMinnville Post Office.