THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. Rest in eternal peace.

Always remembering your happy go lucky personality! You enlisted even tho you didn’t have to, but you felt it was your duty. Thank you for serving our country and being an example of what a man should do and be! Love your cousin Debbie Athey Gilmore.

Specialist Four Burder Smith Athey III, Served with B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, United States Army Vietnam.

Burger(Buzz) and I were first cousin,we were both in Cambodia at the same time,I served with the 2/34 Armor 25 ID,at the time neither knew the other one was there. I was wounded May 6 1970,around the 14 May we left Cambodia,back into Vietnam,where we were ambushed again.After fourteen months,August 11,1970 I returned home and learned of his death.

My uncle (Dennis Milburn)served in Vietnam and rarely speaks about it. When I had the honor of going to DC with both of my sons for their school trips, I asked my uncle if there was anybody on the wall that we should find for him. He immediately answered Burder Athey. I can't imagine what they went through together, but I made sure that my boys know who are the real heroes.