We saw all sorts of things on our walks in Korea
Stáhnout obrázek
Josef Všetula was born on August 11, 1930 in the village of Vnorovy in the Hodonín region. He graduated from the municipal and burgher school there between 1936 and 1944 and then continued his studies at the railway apprenticeship school in Strážnice (1944 to 1947). At the age of eighteen he passed the telegraph examinations and started working as a railway telegraph operator. At the beginning of the 1950s - i.e. at the time of the Korean War - he enlisted in Pardubice and in 1953 he was called up to Korea to supervise the observance of the armistice agreement in the demilitarised zone. In 1954 he returned home and the following year married Marie Konečná. Her father, František Konečný, joined the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II and was shot by Gestapo officers in March 1945. Josef Všetula spent his entire professional life on the railway - he worked as a telegraph operator and later as a train dispatcher. In 2022 he lived in his native Vnorovy.
