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FORT WORTH–from the top of the hill above the Imjin River, Lieutenant James Stone could see hundreds of enemy soldiers.>That November, 1951, near Sokkogae in South Korea, and Chinese troops that are creeping up the Hill, towards the Stone platoon men 48.>The battle took place during the night hours. When a flamethrower operator function and who perished, cube runs into the machine and improved by incandescent light. At one point, he took the machine gun which served only to a different location on a hilltop to the enemy, who approached from two directions.>As China's Army swelled to some 800, stone, who was shot twice in the neck and leg once, ordered his platoon to back down. He will remain with the injured to cover their retreat, he told the soldiers.>For nearly two years, it was the last time they saw the rocks.>On Sunday, 60 years after the battle, Army aviation support Battalion in 90 Fort Worth dedicated Colonel James l. stone of the U.s. Army Reserve Center in honor of the new stone and his heroism during the war of Korea. About a dozen veterans of the war of Korea, 400 soldiers and family members attended the dedication Stone.>A new building, in the way of white settlement West of the Loop 820, which provides support for the battalion headquarters and about 600 army reserves, said Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Snelling, Commander of the Battalion.>Stone, 88, Arlington, said that he was honored and humbled but others deserve praise.>"Let me make it unequivocally clear to You," he said. "The man I do most of the work. They are the ones that should be respected. ">Half of the Stone platoon died during the battle, and others were wounded, he said. When US troops arrived at the top of the Hill the next day, they find a dead enemy soldiers 545.>They find the stone. He and six other survivors were taken as prisoners of war. Stone held for 22 months in a prison camp in the Yalu River until September 1953, when he was repatriated in a prisoner exchange.>Soon after his release, stone learned that he had been given the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration. The rock was about 30 years, including a tour in Viet Nam in 1971.>He almost never speaks about his time in Korea, said his wife, Mary Lou Stone.>"I didn't even know he had received the Medal of Honor until after we were married," he said.>A few years ago, she persuaded him to join the local chapter of the Association of War Veterans of Korea.>It is not uncommon for Korea War Veteran, said William Mac Swain, a friend of Stone and the President of the National Association of Veterans of war in Korea. When Veterans Home from the war in Korea, they found that people hardly know the war and have no interest in learning, he said.>"So the man went back to work, go to school, raise a family and not talk about Korea," Mac Swain said. "That's why it's called the forgotten War. But we are working to change that. ">Stone was one of 85 living Medal of Honor recipient.>Sarah Bahari, 817-390-7056