THE WALL OF FACES

SERGEANT

GEORGE JOE BUCK EISENBERGER


served with


COMPANY B

2nd BATTALION

2nd INFANTRY REGIMENT

" RAMRODS "

1st INFANTRY DIVISION

" THE BIG RED ONE "



Private First Class Morris Frederick Dibble and Staff Sergeant Edward Charles Upner were squad members of a team led by Sergeant George Joe Buck Eisenberger on a ground combat mission in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, on 5 December 1965.

The unit came under hostile fire from what was believed to be a Viet Cong encampment, and in the first burst of fire, the three men were mortally wounded.

When the unit was able to withdraw from the combat area, it was not possible to recover Dibble, Upner and Eisenberger.

When the enemy threat abated, the squad reentered the area in an attempt to find the bodies, only to find that they were gone.

It was generally believed that they were taken by the Viet Cong and probably buried, which was not at all an uncommon thing to do.

( Veterans noted that the Viet Cong also seemed to make it as hard as possible for the graves to be found ).

The three members of Company B are listed among the dead, but because their bodies were not recovered, they are also listed among the missing.

Witnesses felt certain that the three died on the day their unit was hit.

George Joe Buck Eisenberger was an American Indian.

Bucky was and still is my First Cousin! For the first thirteen-years of my life he was there to make sure no harm befell me. Sandy, Johnny and Butch were my other brothers, but Bucky was the one who made going to school and afterwards a whole lot easier. When my cousin, Eva Mae, told us he was MIA in December, 1965 it was as though a light had gone out in our lives. No one ever made the lifelong impression that he did to many of us in my extended family, and replacing him in our day-to-day lives was impossible to this day. Later, they told us you were KIA, but many of us have yet to accept this, and will hold you as as being with us no matter your actual state of being. God has deemed you to be apart from us, but you will always be with us no matter where you are in the universe. I'll see you again someday, Brother, God willing! Remember me at the Final Rollcall, Bro'.

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