Personal Narrative: My Grandfather In The Korean Civil War

1.My grandfather participated in the Korean Civil War.

#1:My grandfather had participated in the Korean civil war as a soldier when he was 20 years old. At that time of the year, there wasn’t any exact division between South and North Korea, even the 38th parallel did not exist back then. My grandfather and his brother was the only people capable in his family who could leave North Korea and come down to South Korea, due to the war being so sudden. If my grandfather did not move down to South Korea during the war, he would not have met my grandmother in South Korea and got married. Our family history would have been completely different with this single event, I might not exist right now.

Evidence 1.1(Secondary source):This is the urn of my grandfather's place in the charnel house. It indicates that he was a war veteran and have participated in the 1951, June 25, Korean civil war. Evidence 1.2( Secondary source):This is a picture of the area called “Hyeonchungsa Shrine” in Incheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. This specific cemetery is only for the soldiers who made a significant contribution during the Korean civil war. My grandfather's was one of the soldiers who have contributed.

Extra evidences (1.3 and 1.4) (Secondary sources):Charnel house where my grandfather's urn is stored and the picture of Hyeonchungsa

My mother was 26 years old and my father was 29 years at the time. Church pastor, Jaecheol Heo, officiated at my parents wedding and my sister, brother and I were also baptized as an infant by him. After 3 years of relationship, my parents got married. Without this event, I would not have been born or even my siblings would not exist and my father’s generation would not have continued to us. My mother is second child and she has a brother who is 2 years older, who got married 2 years later. It was not common to get married before your brother who is first child because in Korea men were thought as superior than