A GI Machine Gunner: From the Seminary to Korea's Front Line (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780991082223)

For his service in Korea, Staff Sergeant James F. Walsh was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He was Honorably Discharged from the US Army in January 1957. Walsh enrolled at Notre Dame University in January, 1953. In March 1954 he was the School's Heavy weight Boxing Champion. In January 1955 Notre Dame awarded him a BA, Cum Laude, and a year later a MA in Correctional Administration. In June 1960, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) awarded him a Masters in Social Work, and in June 1975, the University of Missouri, Kansas City, awarded him a Juris Doctor Degree. Walsh married Jo Ann Myers in September, 1955 at Notre Dame and they currently live in Culver, IN. They had five children, Jim. Kate, Sue, Mike and Dan. Son Mike, age 50, died in 2013. From 1955 to the present. Walsh worked as a City Court Probation Officer (South Bend, IN); a Juvenile Court Probation Officer, (Wayne County, Detroit, MI); Supervisor of Probation Officers, (Montgomery, County, Dayton, OH); Director of Catholic Social Services, (South Bend, IN); Director of the Jackson County Jail (Kansas City, MO); Director of Jackson County Juvenile Court Services (Kansas City, MO); Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services (Jefferson City, MO); General Counsel, Money Concepts International; and currently as a Writer. He has published in professional journals, in popular magazines and in novels: Killers From a Distance (Combat in Korea); Land Of Last Life (Nursing Homes Mystery); and in books: A Lot Of Bull (Back Acre Humor); and The Leprechauns of Union Township (Children Fantasy). He was honored by the Notre Dame Club of Kansas City as its 1974 Man Of the Year and on Law day with the Liberty Bell Award, from the Missouri Young Lawyers Association. The Missouri Juvenile Justice Association honored him for his outstanding contributions to the Juvenile Justice System.