THE WALL OF FACES

MASTER SERGEANT

HAROLD CLARENCE COOK


was a native of

West Palm Beach

Florida

who served with the


12th AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON

315th AIR COMMANDO WING

7th AIR FORCE


and was a recipient of the following

decorations and service medals


PURPLE HEART

AIR FORCE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL with Oak Leaf Cluster

ARMY GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL with 3 Rope Loops

USAF LONGEVITY SERVICE AWARD RIBBON with clasp of 3 Oak Leaf Clusters

NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL

VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL with Bronze Star

REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CAMPAIGN SERVICE MEDAL





YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

NOR SHALL YOU EVER BE





R E M E M B R A N C E




1 JULY 1999

This is one of the 80 Vietnam Veterans who died in Vietnam, From our 5 area Florida Counties, Lee, Charlotte, Glades, Hendry and Collier.

Find a Grave Vitural Cemetery

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=vcsr&GSvcid=429645

Bio's and Picture's are permanently displayed at,

The Museum of Military Memorabilia Naples Municipal Airport, Naples Fl

http://www.museum-mm.org/

Harold is buried at Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, FL.

Dear MSGT Harold Clarence 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.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers