THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from Jim Evergates in touching.As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever…..

One of the kids on the neighborhood corner. Just happened to think of you today.

1LT Franco A. Di Tullio is buried in St. John's Cemetery, Lancaster, MA.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Dio benedica il mio amico

I still think of you , such a brave and wonderful man!
Thank you for your sacrifice!

I replaced Franco Di Tullio after he was wounded the first time. He had been a forward observer for a Special-Forces Mobile Strike Force company on a mission west of Ben Het. The company commander told me that it was a friendly fire event—an errant bullet from a Spooky gunship had grazed Frank.

Later, Frank and I were forward observers for a South Vietnamese army unit operating west of Pleiku. Frank radioed me one day that the element he was with was roughing up people in a Montagnard village. I heard shots over the radio. Frank said that the Vietnamese had killed an old man. More shots rang out. Frank reported what happened to the American MACV advisors, but to his frustration they could do nothing.

Frank had the misfortune of serving much of his time in the Dak To/Ben Het tri-border area where NVA attacks were frequent. He was wounded twice and then killed—one of many casualties in a war that should not have been fought. Frank’s death is more vivid than ever because so many good people (soldiers and civilians, adults and children) continue to be killed, maimed, and traumatized for no good reason in our Era of Endless Wars. I think of Frank daily.

L. Scott Miller; Gilbert AZ; [email protected]