THE WALL OF FACES

I think that song by your cousins in the " Free Design" written for you is the most starkly moving and gut wrenching song I have ever heard about the war or loss for that matter.
I am so sad this happened to you and all the others.
Thank you and God bless you

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace WO. Dedrick, I salute your brave soul. My heart goes out to you and your family.

Dear WO Dwight Dedrick,
Thank you for your service as an Utility & Light Cargo Single Rotor Helicopter Pilot. 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.

Shortly after 0300 hours on January 31, 1968, several regiments of NVA overran the city of Hue and surrounded the MACV compound. While defending the perimeter in the Australian bunker, WO Dwight A. Dedrick, WO Mark J. Skulborstad, WO John R. Aye, WO Richard Gilmore and CWO Thomas R. Pullen were severely wounded, leaving LT Bob Ford the only operational pilot in the detachment. Desi F. Ford, an Australian Advisor, provided covering fire with a machine gun while the pilots were being evacuated and the bunker was reinforced with MACV troops. Ford’s devastatingly accurate fire prevented the enemy from entering the compound and saved many lives that morning. SP4 Lowell Truscott radioed other aviators and talked them into flying into the LCM Ramp north of Hue University to medevac the wounded Blackcat pilots. Truscott, along with James Payne, Robert Brown, and Bob Gray then made three trips through the NVA held city to transport the wounded pilots to the LCM Ramp. WO Dedrick, the "Dangerous Duck", died later that day in Phu Bai from the wounds he received at Hue. The other Hue aviators were evacuated to the United States. [Taken from ttu.edu]