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Chemica
By RALPH CHAPOCO
rchapoco@conleynet.com
262-306-5095

John Ehlke/Daily News

Veteran Norb Weyer is seen Tuesday afternoon at his

home in Richfield. He will take part in a Stars and Stripes
Honor Flight on Saturday. Weyer served with the U.S.
Army from 1954-56.

Richfield man heading

on Honor Flight
Vet served in Korea from 1954-56
By JOE VANDELAARSCHOT
jvan@conleynet.com
262-306-5054
RICHFIELD Korean War-era veteran Norb Weyer was 21
years old when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in October
1954. Now 83, Weyer, of Richfield, remembers his two years
serving in Korea like it was yesterday.
Hell look back more at his military service memories
while he flies to Washington, D.C., on Saturday with dozens of
other veterans on an Honor Flight. The flight is organized to
honor veterans for their service and to let them see the sights
and the memorials at the nations capital.
I had to drop out of school after eighth grade because my
father needed help on the farm, Weyer said. It was during
the depression.
He worked on the farm for a few years and then was
drafted.
After I was drafted, I had six months of basic training and
then we traveled by ship from Washington state to Inchon,
Korea, Weyer said. I was just a boy from the farm. I was the
sickest I have ever been for two weeks out of the four-week
voyage. I had never traveled in a ship before so it was quite an
experience.
Weyer served in the Armys 6th Armored Division. The
time he served was after fighting had ceased.
There were still a lot of American troops there, Weyer
said. It was my job every day to travel by truck from our base
to Inchon and back with the bases food supply for the day. We
had no refrigeration units so we had to haul ice as well
and then put the food in ice houses that were carved into
hillsides.
Weyer said the daily trip was 40 miles and the roads were
bad and had many hills.
We had to drive very slow, Weyer said. We would have to
drive as slow as 10 mph at times and that created a problem.

Employees at a facility
located in Germantown
received a scare Tuesday
morning when two chemicals were mixed, producing
toxic fumes that eventually
sent five people to the
hospital.
According to a news
release sent by the village of
Germantown Fire Chief
Gary Weiss, the department
responded to a call at Gehls
Guernsey Farms after sulfuric acid was wrongly
mixed with sodium chlorite
25 percent, resulting in the
production of chlorine and
sulfur dioxide gas.
Pressure from the gas
caused a breach in the
container and the gases
and sulfuric acid were
released into the facility.
Firefighters responded to
contain and address the
issue.
Once I got the material
safety data sheets to determine what it was, I have a
hazardous materials background, so I knew what
gases would be formed from
the mixing, we knew what
we had to do, Weiss said.
There is also a guidebook
we use that gives some
basic information.
Weiss and others on
scene determined that once
the substance was diluted
enough, it could be released
into the environment. He
said the site has a system
with which they deposit

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