THE WALL OF FACES

I have not forgotten you. I chair the Adoption Committee for The National League of Families of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia. We will always remember the 1,889 Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia and the thousands of others that lost their lives. We will not stop our efforts until all of you are home where you belong.

We need to reach the next generation so that they will carry on when our generation is no longer able. To do so, we are attempting to locate photographs of all the missing. If you are reading this remembrance and have a photo and/or memory of this missing American that you would like to share for our project, please contact me at:

Candace Lokey
PO Box 206
Freeport, PA 16229
[email protected]

If you are not familiar with our organization, please visit our web site at :

www.pow-miafamilies.org

My name is LT GAY, NC, USN. We found a memorial from DaNang, South Viet Nam, dated Oct 8 1963. It listed Bruce C. Farrell, KLT, MC; Manuel R. Denton, HM3, USN and Claude Rice, HN, USN stating "Who died in the service of their country and whose contributions to medicine and their patients care cannot be forgotten. The memorial made of stone was found in the storage room at Futenma Branch Clinic, Okinawa Japan. We wanted to re-dedicate it as it had obviously been removed and brought here and wanted to learn more about the sailors mentioned.

Hospital Corpsman Third Class Manuel Reyes Denton, USN, was
assigned to the 1 st Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force,
Pacific. On October 8, 1963, he was a crewman on board a Marine
UH-34D helicopter conducting a search mission for a downed
friendly aircraft. The helicopter crashed some 43 miles west of Da
Nang, Republic of Vietnam, in mountainous jungle terrain which
was then hostile territory. Petty Officer Denton's cause of death
is not known.

Petty Officer Denton was listed as Missing In Action which was
changed to Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered.

Petty Officer Denton was born June 1 8, 1 94 1, in San
Antonio,Texas, and listed Kerrville, Texas, as his Home of
Record

Rest in Peace "Doc"
John Bruneel, HMCM USN (Ret)


I'm the One Called "Doc…"


I shall not walk in your footsteps,
but I will walk by your side.
I shall not walk in your image,
I've learned my own title of pride.
We've answered the call together,
on sea and foreign land.
When the cry for help was given,
I've been there right at hand.
Whether I am on the ocean
or in the jungle wearing greens,
Giving aid to my fellow man,
be it Sailors or Marines.
So the next time you see a corpsman
and you thing of calling him "squid",
Think of the job he's doing
as those before him did.
And if you ever have to go out there
and you life is on the block,
Look at the one right next to you…
I'm the one called "Doc".


Harry D. Penny, Jr. HMC(AC)USN
Copyright 1975

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