THE WALL OF FACES

I graduated with Mickey..the class of '65.During our high schools 7 the years to follow it was so hard to hear the names of those lost on T.V. or read in Newsday.It was our time,our age group & when it was someone from our home town it hurt even more.Thank you Michael..you are not forgotten and prayers for all your friends and family.

I want to thank everyone ,who remember my brother, And for taking the time out, to speak about him. I want to say thankyou to George Buck for letting me know what he was doing the last minutes of his life.

From a fellow Veteran Thank You for your Service, your Courage and your Sacrifice. You are not Forgotten !

It is 37 years almost to the day that you were taken from us.

To my brotherI just want you to know .how much you are still thought of. I love you, your sister irene

This past Monday on Memorial Day, the National Dusters, Quads, Searchlights Association marched in the Memorial Day Parade in Washington D.C. Michael was a gunner on a Duster on Highway 19 outside of Pleiku in the Central Highlands. He was killed when he and his buddy John Acosta ran over a land mine while going to a 4th Division outpost to get our daily hot meal to be brought back to our base camp at a bridge site we guarded.
The picture of the veterans in the red ball caps at the wall with their hands on the names are of men who served on Dusters, Quad 50s or Searchlights. Many of them are Michael's friends and fellow dustermen. That ceremony at The Wall was to honor Michael, John and 209 other men of our units who were killed in action and are on the wall.
Nearly 300 of us marched that afternoon in the parade up Constitution Ave. and everyone carried a pencil etching of a man lost from our units. I carried John Acosta's etching and a good friend carried Michael's. Following our
group were a Duster, a Quad 50 system on a truck and a searchlight system on a jeep. All 211 men from our units who are on the Wall, through their name etchings, finally got to march in their Memorial Day parade.
Both Michael and John have their names on paving bricks laid down at the Vietnam Memorial to our units at Fort Sill, Oklahoma dedicated in August 2013.
Our Association's motto is "together then, together again". We will never forget their sacrifice. I know I never will forget, I was their Platoon Leader.