“The first time I gave blood was in Korea,” 84-year-old Gerald Dunford of Hollandale said as he began another a blood donation.

Dunford spent two years in Korea with the United States Army. He gave his first blood donation in 1953.

“There was a man wounded on the floor, and two of us come along, and we both had the same blood (type) as he did,” he said. “And I sat on one side, and the guy on the other side, so we gave blood.”

Because Dunford and the other soldier were on their way to something else, Dunford said, he was not sure if the wounded man in Korea who received his first blood donation lived or died.

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