THE WALL OF FACES

Private First Class Michael John Abruzzesa Jr., Served with Battery A, 4th Battalion, 42nd Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, United States Army Vietnam.

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrances posted on this site from friends and family show the love they have for you. As long as you are remembered you will never truly die.

My cousin, My Brother in Arms, my sleepiness nights bring me to remember things and people from my past here and gone, tonight i think of you my cousin, i sit here and watch TV about Vietnam, about our lost HERO'S like you, and many others that have paid the ultimate price as you did, your mother and father loved you so very much, i remember the way they talked about you, i was always in Aw of you, i don't remember you that well being i was only 5 when you died, but the stories that were told threwout my childhood were great and interesting, Larry and i had become very close for a long time, i would go visit with my children all the time, then your father past and and we grew apart, not sure why, i think it had to do with money, but thats on him, every once in a while i get very melancholy and think about our family and the way thing were back then, i'm sure your watching over all of us, and your up there with uncle Jim and your father, until we meet again, your cousin Leonard

We can never truly repay the debt we owe our fallen heroes. Without people like you our great nation would not exist. Rest in peace PFC. Abruzzesa, I salute your brave soul. From a Jamaica Queens Vet.

I knew Mike in basic training. We became fast friends for those 8 confusing and difficult weeks, then parted forever. The sergeants called him "Alphabet" because of the ABZs in his name. I found out today, Memorial Day 2020, that he fell the same month that I arrived in Vietnam, Sept. 68. I had no idea. I often wonder about memorable people who passed the my life. Sorry to learn yours was cut short. I remember you well.