THE WALL OF FACES

Dear LCPL Fernando Vicente Foote, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

2093

PI

Graduated 18 Nov. 1966

I know my life is different for you lived, I know my life would be different if you lived. I have only stories and a knowing that we would have been so very close and the dearest of confidants. I am proud of your service to our nation, your sacrafice, your love for me as an infant, your providing for me even then as you were only a boy. I know you called me "Stinkey Pot" and it gives me pleasure that I had a place in your heart. May my dreams reach the heavens to speak with your spirit and hear the glory that the Lord has bestowed on his good son. How sweet that you hear directly from God, "Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant, Well Done". I cry tears for you a many a time, yet I cry for myself for having not a picture of your face in my mine's eye. We shall met one day dear brother.
Rest in Peace and Gods abiding Love

Your baby sister,
Deanna

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

Fernando is buried at Long Island Nat Cem.