***IMPORTANT NOTICE*****

September 12, 2007:

The 3 1/2 hour documentary: Men of Truth and Courage in a "forgotten war;" The 17th Infantry in Korea is now complete, with a trailer on YouTube and following:

http://www.legaleagleproductions.com/movies/Trailer.wmv

A copy of this two disk set will be available after commercial printing is completed at the end of October 2007,  by sending a check payable to either Stuart or Nancy Namm, 101 Marshview Road, Hampstead, NC 28443; in the amount of $33.95, which includes $4.00 for shipping, and $5.00 for the William Quinn 17th Infantry Scholarship Fund. The 3 1/2 hour documentary explores the exploits of the 17th Infantry Regiment from Japan in 1949 to the Inchon Amphibious landing, to the Yalu River, to the Iwon landing, to the Hungnam evacuation, to Pork Chop Hill, and up to the final cease fire in July 1953. More than one hour is dedicated to the battles of Pork Chop Hill alone. It will be a wonderful keepsake for Korean War veterans, their children and future generations.

If you have any question, we can be reached by e-mail at: RetJudgeS1@aol.com

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The screening date for the two Appalachian music documentaries, Along About Sundown and Musical Treasures of the Southern Appalachi'ns at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC, has been changed to Friday evening, November 10, 2006 at 6:30 PM from November 17, 2006 at 6:30 PM. We hope to see you all there, as many of the featured performers will be there as well.

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December 2005: We recently completed and copyrighted the two hour documentary entitled: "Musical Treasures of the Southern Appalachi'ns of the Carolinas." Short video clips can be viewed on this website's Documentaries page. The documentary is dedicated to the late Joe Wilson. The documentary had its premier screening in February at the Pender County Public Library in Hampstead, North Carolina to an overflow and very enthusiatic audience. Because of limited space, many persons were turned away, and a second screening is planned for April. Copies of this video and the "Along About Sundown" video documenting Asheville North Carolina's "Shindig on the Green," our first project, are being gifted to the Mars Hill College Library archives which documents and preserves for posterity the culture of the Southern Appalachians.

February, 2006: Nancy and I recently returned from Quito, Ecuador after an unbelievable eight days aboard a 98´ trimaran, the mv Lammer Law, traveling around the magnificent and unusual islands of the Galapagos archipelago. In preparation for a future nature documentary, I will begin inserting video clips of our many snorkeling adventures: swimming with White Tip Reef Sharks, the rare Marine Iguana of the Galapagos, Galapagos Penguins and Galapagos Sea Lions, including huge Bull Seal Lions, in my face,  protecting their harem of females. There will also be clips of the beautiul city of Quito and the unique wildlife, like the giant Tortoise, of the Galapagos archipelago.

March, 2006: We will be heading to Florida to continue interviewing Korean War veterans for the "17th Infantry in Korea" project, which we believe to be the most important project we have evr been involved in. It will probably take upwards of two years to complete. (Note: We are now in Florida (March 18) where we have concluded three excellent interviews, and where we will complete two more tomorrow before returning to North Carolina on March 20. We will have covered the state from St. Augustine to Orlando to Zephyrhills to Naples to Hallandale to Titusville to Ormond Beach and back to North Carolina-a complete circle of the state, other than the panhandle; and we have had some great interviews of some very interesting veterans, making some wonderful new friends all along the way.) On a sad note: One of the veterans whom we interviewed in Titusville, FL, Mike Mirabella, passed away in June 2006. That sad fact only makes our mission more important, for each one of these interviews will ultimately find a place in the historical archives at the Army War Museum in Carlisle, PA.

We are proud to report that short video montage-only five minutes and twenty seconds-will be featured, along with other films, at the Welcome Center of the March 18-19 Peace rally at Fayetteville, North Carolina, the home of the 82nd Airborne. The film is taken from footage shot by the Judge at the 2005 Fayetteville rally. This promises to be a much larger gathering of those who are opposed to the war in Iraq. The video is streaming on our "Works in Progress" page.

July 1, 2006: Nancy and I will be in beautiful Asheville, NC for the opening of the 40th year of Asheville's Shindig on the Green music festival which we have been videotaping for 15 years, and which is the subject and background of two of our documentaries. The Shindig has moved this year from City County Plaza, due to construction, to Martin Luther King Jr. Park in the heart of Asheville, and it will be there all summer on Saturday nights at 7:00 PM between July 4th weekend and Labor Day weekend, except for two weekends. It is a unique music festivel which is open to the public and free, weather permitting. 

Week of July 3, 2006: This will be an exciting week, with a visit to 98 year old Grace Powell in Williamsburg, VA, the widow of Gen. Herbert Powell, who, as a Col. and CO of the Regiment, rebuilt the 17th Infantry from an understrength and under equipped occupation force in Japan after WW II, into a mighty fighting machine which he led into battle in Korea in September 1950, as part of the newly formed X Corps. From there, it is on to the beautiful Alleghany Mountains mountains of West Virginia to interview a medic who served with the 17th at the battles of Pork Chop Hill. Finally, we will meet with Greta Klingon, Gen. Powell's biographer and family friend in PA, with whom we will continue our research and copy documents at the Army War Museum at Carlisle Barracks in PA.

September 2006: After a summer of editing and reediting our Korean War documentary, we are now in the heartland of the United States-the center of Kansas on our way to the 17th Infantry Association reunion in Colorado Springs. By this afternoon, on this trip, we will have conducted five more veteran interviews for our upcoming documentary: Men of Courage in a Forgotten War: The 17th Infantry in the Korean War (see the "Works in Progress" page). Yesterday, in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, we met with and interviewed 87 year old Herbert Newman, a retired Chief Warrant Officer, who served thirty years in tne Army before retiring, and who is a veteran of three major wars: WW II,  the Korean War and the Vietnam War. A widower, he lives by himself in a beautiful five room apartment, and is as lucid, loving and as active as any human being could possibly be at that age. Herbert was the 17th Infantry's Regimental Supply Officer in 1951 and 1952, and he had much to say about the supply situation, especially with respect to winter gear, during the very cold north Korean winter of 1951-52. Nancy, who worked with senior citizens for many years,  wanted to take him home with us.  Today, we have one last veteran interview in Gove, KS, and then it is on to the reunion where we will conduct many more interviews, and screen what will not be the final cut of the first half of our documentary. In every veteran's home that we have visited, we have received a very warm welcome from our hosts, which has made this mission one which we will never forget and long cherish.

In October 2006, Nancy and I will be off to Africa, to visit the Serengetti in Kenya and Tanzania for 14 days, from where we expect to return with great video clips and photographs of Africa's unique wildlife and culture.

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November 5, 2006:  Yesterday, Nancy and I returned home after two adventurous and unforgettable weeks in East Africa. We visited the nations of Kenya and Tanzania on a photographic and videographic safari in several exotic locales, two of which are World Heritage Sites. Arriving from London where we spent one enjoyable day with great British friends that we have made through our work in documentaries, Frazer and Clare Ashford, he the Producer of The Serial Killers project with which I was connected for thirteen thirty minute documentaries aired in the USA and Europe; and the Producer of our doumentary entitled A Question of Guilt, the chilling story of 17 year old Martin Tankleff, convicted of murdering his adoptive parents on Long Island, serving 50 years in prison for a crime which he probably never committed, as his attorneys have produced the real killers. Still, he lingers behind bars. We also spent the same pleasant evening with David Robins and wife Lynn, together with the Ashford's at the third oldest pub in London. Early the next morning, we flew Kenya Airways to Nairobi where we spent the night at the favorite haunt of Winston Churchill, the Norfolk Hotel, but flew on to our next destination, Amboseli National Park, via Air Kenya, where we were met by our first guide, Eric, who both drove our Toyota Land Cruiser, with open top, and spotted the incredible wildlife. Another couple from the UK accompanied us on our game drives at Amboseli, and they were replaced by another very interesting South African couple living on, while managing, a sugar plantation in Mozambique, during our time spent in Samburu National Park. Again, wehad a very knowledgeable and friendly guide, Charles, who likewise operated an open top Toyota Land Cruiser. After several days in Kenya, we flew Air Kenya to Arusha, the capital of Tanzania, where we were met by Baraza, of Bushback Safaris, who was both our driver and guide in a Toyota Land Cruiser through Lake Manyara National Park and the two World Heritage Sites, Ngorongora Crater and The Serengeti. Between the two parks, we visited Olduvai Gorge, the legendary site of the Leakey's incrediblePaleontological discoveries of prehistoric humans, such as homo erectus. During the next six days, it was just Nancy, Baraza and myself during the twice daily game drives in the open vehicle. We got to see everything and evry animal we had ever hoped to see, except perhps an actual kill, although we spent much time with Lions and Cheetah on the hunt, and in hot pursuit, and several hours with a Leopard consuming her kill in a huge Acacia tree. We were right amonst the wildlife, and have over 1200 photos and 6 1/2 hours of video as our reward! The editing process will consume many, many hours, whilst still working on the Korean War project; but once again it will be a true labor of love, which we hope to share with you, our friends and new visitors from all over the world. At every one of our stops we stayed at world class lodges or safari camps, like Larsen's Safari Camp at Sambura or Serena's Ngorongoro Crater Lodge on the rim of a huge volcanic crater created over 2,000,000 years ago, and where the wildlife are born and live out their lives, such as they are! To give you just an early taste of what we saw, and how close we were, I have added some photos to our Nature Photos page taken in Amboseli National Park.

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On November 10, 2006, at 6:30 PM, at the beautiful campus of Mars Hill College in the heart of the North Carolina mountains, there will be a screening of our two Southern Appalachi'n documentaries about mountain music and performers: Along About Sundown, Asheville North Carolina's 'Shindig on the Green,' and Musical Treasures of the Southern Appalachi'ns. Both of these documentaries are in their musical archives, and the screening is open to the public, the faculty and the student body (see the "Documentaries" page on this website). Contact Us for further information.

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As another calendar year slowly fades into the sunset, Legal Eagle Productions (Nancy Namm, Executive Producer and Stuart Namm, Creative Director and Videographer) looks back upon a very exciting and fruitful year. Most of our accomplishments this year relate to our major work in progress, the documentary presently entitled:

"Men of Truth and Courage, The 17th Infantry Regiment in the Korean War"

We have traveled the country from Pennsylvania to Florida, and from North Carolina to Colorado, by automobile, logging thousands of miles, in our quest to interview the slowly diminishing number of veterans willing to speak of their experience in what is sometimes called "The Forgotten War."

By the time the year comes to a close, we will have conducted almost 50 interviews in high definition video, logging almost 40 hours of tape. We have met hundreds of new friends, and heard hundreds of wonderful stories of incredible heroism, together with stories of great sacrifice and patriotism, but never a word of complaint or regret. We have been welcomed with open arms in homes of people who were strangers to us, but whom now we number amongst our closest friends! We have accumulated many hundreds of photographs and documents related to the Korean War, and we have just concluded an unforgettable interview of an 89 year old veteran of three wars, our eldest interviewee-for now-and we will conclude the year, between Christman and New Year's Day, with five additional interviews in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Three of these interviewees were survivors of the last battles of the Korean War-the bloodly and costly battles of Pork Chop Hill.

Early next year, we will begin the long and tedious, but very fulfilling, process of editing all this material into a two hour video documentary to meet our self imposed deadline for completion, the summer of 2007, in time for its premiere screening at the September 2007 reunion of the 17th Infantry Association in Mystic, Connecticut.

All the while that we have been doing this, we have supplemented the documentary project by filling the pages of this website with fantastic photographs and interesting stories of heroism and courage.

But this was not the only project that we have worked on this year. We began a project which we call: The Rebetzin Pumps Iron, the incredible story of Karen Romer, the wife of Reform Rabbi Ben Romer, who had been the Rabbi-spiritual leader-at Temple of Israel, Wilmington, North Carolina, but who is now the spiritual leader of a Reform Temple in Richmond, Virginia, resulting from a kabal of a small group, but wealthy, members of the congregation who could not mold this strong willed man of great intellect and principle into a creature who would bend his principles to their will.

The move of the Romer's to Virginia has stalled our completion of this very worthwhile and interesting human interest story! However, it is our intent, upon completion of the Korean War documentary, to finish this story. Some video clips and photos of this project can be found under "Works in Progress" on this website.

All the while that this was taking place, we have managed to continue or international travel-spending two incredible weeks in East Africa-Kenya and Tanzania-in October and November, after having concluded an adventurous two weeks on a trimaran in the Galapagos archipelago in January, where Stuart shot many hours of  video, both underwater and on the islands, of the strange, but fantastic, creatures first discovered by Charles Darwin. Some of the video and photographs of both trips can be found on the pages of this website under "Works in Progress" and "Nature." So long as our health holds out, we intend to continue our adventurous travel in 200t7 with a two week trip to a remote island in the Central American republic of Belize, which is located on one of the great barrier reefs of the world.

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December 27, 2006: We are in the midst of our final trip of the year connected to our documentary project: Men of Truth and Courage: The 17th Infantry Regiment in the Korean War (working title). We are traveling by automobile to New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland in rather brisk winter weather, heavy holiday traffic around Washington, DC, but, fortunately, no snow! We will be interviewing five veterans of the Korean War; one a Silver Star receipient who was seriously wounded in the final battle of Pork Chop, as he, a rifle platoon leader, and his men held their position on the hill for three days while under the heaviest assault by the Chinese of the war; another the Chief Medic on Pork Chop Hill during the final battle of the war; the third, one of the embattled riflemen on the hill; our only interview of a chaplain attached to the regiment during the war; and the last, a radio operator who wrote a short book for his grandchildren about his experience as a member of the 17th when it moved from Japan to Korea, and on its push to and from the Yalu River. Once again, we will be visiting with Greta Klingon in Pennsylvania, Colonel Powell's biographer, who has been so gracious and helpful to us in our quest to achieve an accurate and interesting account of the war, while honoring the great heroes of a very distinguished regiment operating under the most difficult of circumstances known to humankind.

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January 29, 2007: The website has been inactive for the last two weeks, and not as dynamic as we like it to be, as Stuart and Nancy just returned from a ten day adventure vacation on a privately owned caye (atoll or island, take your choice) on what is known as "Glover's Reef," 65 miles southeast of Belize City, the capital city of Belize (formerly British Honduras) and just east of the 185 mile long barrier reef which has been designated a "World Heritage Site!" It was a week of kayaking, snorkeling, nature photography and underwater video in an ecologically protected area with the eleven other guests, some old enough to be Stuart's grandchildren! We will add more about this fascinating ten days in the Caribbean sun, sans hot water or flush toilets, in the next several days under the "Works in Progress" and "Nature" pages of this website. It was just good to get away from the computer keyboard for a few days. Now the push will be on to meet our September deadline for the completed "17th Infantry in the Korean War" project! Most all the interviews are "in the can," so to speak, with one more scheduled here on February 3-another heroic survivor of the last battle for Pork Chop Hill. We could have continued the interview stage, which may yet continue if there is time, but at some point you must decide that you have more than enough to cover your subject matter-"Men of Truth and Courage," the great 17th Infantry Buffaloes of the Korean War!

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September 1, 2007

Nancy and I are pleased to announce the forthcoming World Premiere of our incredible 3 1/2 hour documentary entitled: Men of Truth and Courage in a Forgotten War; The 17th Infantry Regiment in Korean. The first public viewing will take place on September 20, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Mystic, CT reunion of the 17th Infantry Association. We are particularly pleased because this is a project which has taken two years to complete, working sometimes seven days a week, and as much as twelve hours a day. The documentary is housed on two DVD+R disks, and it is a compilation of 48 separate interviews of 17th Infantry veterans all over the country, two of whom have passed since their interview, as well as hundreds of photos, vintage 8mm footage, and newsreel footage. Copies will be presented to such museums as the Army War Museum in Carlisle, PA., and to the 17th Infantry Regiment's archives. We would be remiss not to mention that this project would not have been as successful without the gracious assistance of our great friend Greta Klingon, Gen. Powell's biographer and friend, and our good friend Marvin Cross of Ohio. While the disks are now being carefully reproduced, they will not be avilable to the general public until after the September 20 premiere. Their cost will be $29.95 plus $4.00, for shipping within the United States. They can be preordered by sending a check payable to: Judge Stuart Namm (Ret), 101 Marshview Rd., Hampstead, NC 28443. The disks are in the widescreen format. If you have any question, please e-mail us at RetJudgeS1@aol.com.

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We hope that you have enjoyed your visit to this website, and wish to be notified when additional music, photographs and video clips have been added to the site, please contact us by e-mail where provided, and we will be happy to advise you whenever we have added more material to these pages. Simply send us an e-mail to RetJudgeS1@aol.com ..