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The 9th Infantry Regiment’s Liscum Bowl is returning to Korea:
The 2nd Infantry Division’s greatest trophy, the Liscum Bowl, will return to South Korea after more than two years’ absence while it was restored in the United States.
Maj. Karl Ivey, 2nd ID spokesman, said last week that the silver punch bowl, which has been in America since 2003, would be back at the 2nd ID Museum at Camp Red Cloud by April.
The Liscum Bowl may quite possibly be the world’s most expensive punch bowl because it is valued at $2.5 million dollars. I hoped they are not sending it by US mail back here because it will assuredly get lost in the 2ID post office just like the DVD’s and magazines I order and never get.
The bowl does have some interesting history:
Lt. Col. Ryan Kuhn, the 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment commander, said the bowl was named in honor of former 9th Infantry Regiment commander Col. Emerson H. Liscum, killed in action in Tientsin, China, on July 13, 1900.
“It is where we got our motto, ‘Keep up the fire’ — Col. Liscum’s last words right before he was fatally wounded in combat,†Kuhn said.
According to the 9th Infantry Regiment’s Web site, the bowl is made from silver presented to the regiment by the Chinese prince Li Hung Chang in 1900 in appreciation for the unit’s actions at Tientsin to quell the Boxer Rebellion.
The 9th Infantry Regiment the Manchus has had long and interesting history. The regiment was first formed in 1799 and fought in the Civil War, battled Indians all along the Great Plains including fights against Gerinomo and Crazy Horse. The battalion also fought in the Spanish-American War including fighting for San Juan Hill and Santiago. The regiment then was moved to the Phillipines and then deployed in 1900 to China to quell the Boxer Rebellion and earning the Liscum Bowl and the name the Manchus. The regiment then joined the 2nd Infantry Division in France in 1917 to fight in World War I. The regiment also fought in Europe during World War II by landing on Omaha Beach during the D-Day landing operation and marching on through Germany.
In 1950 the regiment was once again put into action fighting the communist agressors during the Korean War. Then in 1966 the battalion was deployed to Vietnam where they remained for four and half years before going back state side. As part of the 7th Infantry Division the 9th Infantry Regiment than took part in Operation Just Cause in Panaman before rejoining the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea where it remains today.
10:41 am on February 18th, 2007 1
I cant believe that Camp Casey is going to host that punch bowl, with the security they have????? Off the
subject, but of interesting material is;
michaelyon.blogspot.com
Has a great story on a raid in Iraq recently, and the photos to back it up. As a reporter he should of been a soldier. Its a shame that the msm cant put out stuff like that.
10:52 am on February 18th, 2007 2
I regualarly follow Michael Yon's blog and his dispatches from Iraq are the best I have seen. Many of his dispatches I can actually relate to having traveled through some of those areas myself. Michael Yon is actually a trained soldier, an ex-SF who is free lancing in Iraq. He will be leaving Iraq in a couple of weeks and probably being heading off to Afghanistan after a little time off state side.
It takes an ex-soldier like Michael Yon to really describe what is going on in Iraq and hopefully he can do the same thing when he next travels to Afghanistan.