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army
wwII & korea

of Heroes on March
25, 2005. On April
4, 2018, the Airman
Leadership School
Auditorium was
dedicated as the
A stand made for Dan Dan sumggled his hand-carved
by a group of students chess set home in a pouch he Dan L. McKinney
Dan had addressed made from his uniform shirt Auditorium. With
all his presentations
Dan returned to Clovis where he worked for an auto about his time as a
parts store for 11 years. He left there to open his own POW in Korea, he
auto parts store, which he ran until 1987. His wife has never forgotten
served as the Clovis school nurse from 1968 until her those he left behind.
retirement in 1992. That is something
that will never leave
Dan’s favorite his heart.
hobby is golf; he
had fallen
in love with
the game
while he
caddied for
his dad at
Proof of Dan's hole-in-one the age of
six. When
he turned
eight, he began playing the game and has played
ever since. He has one hole-in-one on his record.
Dan was asked to give a presentation in 2005 to
the Cannon ALS (Airman Leadership School) at
Cannon Air
Force Base.
Since the first
presentation
until 2017,
Dan has told
the story
about his
time as a
prisoner of
war in Korea
95 times.
Dan was
the seventh
inductee into
the Airman
Leadership
School Wall

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