STAFF REPORTS
Joe Snyder, 94, of San Marcos, served in both WWII and the Korean War. He joined the service in the horse cavalry, in one of the last cavalry units at Fort Riley, Kan. He is a native of Kansas City, where he started a newspaper as a boy, then worked for the Kansas City Star as a copy boy before joining the military. Snyder served four years in WWII and was part of Gen. Joe MacArthur’s press staff during the war. He was called back to active duty for Korea at the request of MacArthur.
Stationed in the Pacific, Snyder was on the first planeload of journalists to go into Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the dropping of the bomb. He also was on the U.S.S. Missouri when the peace treaty with Japan was signed. Snyder will be recognized at the God and Country Veterans Day Celebration this Sunday at the Embassy Suites in San Marcos.
