THE WALL OF FACES

I was eight and lived in the neighborhood near Walter. I remember your viewing at the funeral home in Jacksonville. We moved to Gainesville and years ago I started visiting your resting place in Hague and leaving a small flag. I remember you Walter and will never forget. Thank You

DEAR SPECIALIST 4TH CLASS ANSLOW.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN AIRBORNE QUALIFIED GRUNT. I AM SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS OF YOUR DAD. REST IN PEACE.

Time going on but I remember you my friend,I am so proud of you .your father MR Anslow killed him self after your funeral he was in much more pain than we could no but you already know this,this day is for you,I miss you buddy I'll see you soon but until then I'll be thinking about you,,,

From the Sunday Florida Times Union, Section B, page 12 (date not indicated)

ANSLOW - Funeral services for Spec. 4 Walter H. Anslow, 21, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday in the Chapel of Hardage and Sons Funeral Home, 5753 Blanding Blvd., with the Reverend Clay D. Jennings, pastor of Jacksonville Heights Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Hague Community Church Cemetery, Hague, Florida. Spec. 4 Anslow of 5710 Brannon Ave., Jacksonville Heights, was killed in action while serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He was born in Jacksonville and had lived here all of his life. He was a member of the Normandy Trinity Baptist Church, and was a 1966 graduate of Forrest High School. Military rites will be held at the graveside and services at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, in Hague, Florida. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Anslow; two aunts, Mrs. A. B. Lloyd of Canada and Mrs. A. B. Hague of Jacksonville; two uncles, W. E. Anslow of Gainesville and A. B. Hague of Jacksonville and several cousins.

On March 22, 1968, SP4 Walter H. Anslow of D Company, 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, was engaged in combat at Nui Hon Vuon, known as Hill 309, in the uncharted, primeval wilderness straddling the Vietnamese-Laotian border in Thua Thien Province, part of the I Corps tactical zone. It was here SP4 Anslow was fatally wounded by an NVA mortar round that fell on his company’s position. The tragedy of his death was compounded later when his father committed suicide shortly after his burial in Florida, a grieving parent unable to cope with loss of his only child. [Taken from Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War by P. Maslowski & D. Winslow and thewall-usa.com]