We begin a brief series on Sons of Porter County lost in the Korean Conflict. This is an oft forgotten war in our nation's history where not a lot is taught or understood in modern times. But for 50,000 families who lost a loved one in the conflict, it is anything but forgotten. Today we meet Marvin Wilbert Soderstrom of Portage who was KIA while defending an outpost in a hostile area in Korea on September 9, 1951 during the "Punchbowl campaign." Marvin moved to Portage right before his senior year in high school having spent his first three years of high school at Lew Wallace in Gary. He was 21 at the time of his deployment and was declared as MIA immediately following the attack on his outpost by Chinese militants. An incoming shell exploded directly next to him; subsequent searches by his company were unsuccessful and he was finally presumed dead in February, 1954.