THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Pvt Christopher Cook,
Thank you for your service as Military Police. It is 2018, Happy New Year. It is so important for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

Private Christopher Corwin Cook, Served with the 188th Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Group, 18th Military Police Brigade.

PVT Christopher C. Cook was a military policeman serving with the 188th MP Company. His company provided security for a provisional stockade and served as bunker guards at Camp David Land, west of Da Nang (south of Hill 327, aka “Freedom Hill”), Quang Nam Province, RVN. Bunker Seven, a large sandbagged, corrugated metal and plywood mini-fortress with an M2 Browning .50 machine gun, was the dedicated party center on base. On July 15, 1971, after a pre-party on Bunker Seven, PVT Cook and a companion continued their inebriation in Cook’s hooch. After smoking marijuana, snorting heroin, and downing either Jack Daniels or Johnny Walker, Cook passed out. He died of asphyxiation after drowning in his own vomit. The Army coded his casualty as “accidental self-destruction.” Cook was 19 years-old. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and an anonymous source]

Dear PVT Christopher Corwin Cook, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

With respect, Sir

Curt Carter

Rest in peace with the warriors.