Emmett Shelton Jr. grew up in Westlake and joined the Marine Corps Reserves at 16. He was called to duty right after graduation from Austin High in 1950. Within 6 months, he was a rifleman in one of the cruelest battles of the Korean War, Chosin Reservoir. His buddy was shot within 10 minutes of his first battle. And it got tougher. Emmett suffered severe frostbite and received 100 percent disability.  Thirty-six years later, on Thanksgiving Day, Austin Radio station KVET interviewed Emmett Jr. and another Marine from Chosin, Don Childs, in a call-in show about their first-hand experiences. (Part 4 of 5) 

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Stories told by Emmett Shelton / compiled and submitted by Cynthia Shelton.