Great Cacapon vet carried pencil to Korean War and back

by Trish Rudder

A Great Cacapon man who served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War beginning in 1952 took a piece of home with him.  Before he went into infantry training in Kentucky, Gene Kidwell put a pencil in his pocket before he left home.

That pencil stayed with him at each step of his journey from Great Cacapon to Kentucky to Seattle, where he boarded a troop carrier to Seoul, Korea. It…