THE WALL OF FACES

You will forever remain in our hearts and prayers

I Honor You & Thank you for serving our Country. It is my pleasure to share this remembrance and memorial on the behalf of the “Danner Family.” RIP know as (POP)

Dear PFC Jessie Danner,
Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Today is Good Friday, and Passover begins tonight. Easter is coming up. Happy Easter. 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.

To the oldest of my siblings who paid the ultimate price so this country could continue to become the great nation she became! I pray that men and women of this nation will truly understand what our freedom cost. I love you I was only two years six months to three years old when you left. I thank God for the wall and the memory. Thank you for your service, your baby brother, Tom Danner Jr.



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Following my Vietnam service I returned to Mississippi and soon thereafter relocated to Meridian and have lived here since 1973. You fellows from Lauderdale County probably would not recognize the places and the people you left behind – things have changed drastically since you have been gone. News of your deaths brought much heartbreak and many tears to your loved ones and friends. After all these years we still remember the price you paid for your country and our freedoms. As another Memorial Day ceremony unfolds at the county courthouse, each of your 28 names will be read. In remembrance of your sacrifice, friends and family members will come forward to place a Buddy Poppy at the base of the granite wall honoring all the county’s losses since World War I. The patriotism that you felt as you left Lauderdale County for the war in Vietnam is still alive and well in your hometowns and communities. Many of you died protecting one another, but you all served so that we could keep the things we love the most – God, country and family. By remaining true to these principles, we honor your sacrifices.

Van “Mac” McCarty
Meridian, MS
USMC Vietnam Veteran
1968-69, 1970-71