THE WALL OF FACES

Mike Ambra
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Attending Corpsman on scene Jul0567
4265 Clayton Rd. Apt 313 Concord Calif 94521 USA
CHOICES FOR THE NIGHT & HIS LAST
my name Mike Ambra, the attending corpsman at that mortar barrage. at 3 AM 5 July Doc Acton lay mortally wounded in the heart from shrapnel. 3 feet away lay the Machine Gunner who took a direct hit inside the gunners nest, both legs obliterated. The gunner was trying to get the Docs 45 for a suicide. I removed the 45 and listened at Actons chest as the last heartbeat, weakly finished beating. acton was my senior Doc. Now I was to fill his position. I was 21. Now I`m 66. Doc Acton was very skilled and professional. I was lucky to have apprenticed under him. i can still remember his face, and how proud he was working with Marines.

On the remembrance of your 76th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Semper Fi, Doc

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

As long as you are remembered you will never die...

Picture posted by Tom Clark, Teacher and Students, Lake Central High School, St. John, Indiana.
Please watch our video about what we have been doing in the classroom for the past 32 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohw6D-bcfPU
Picture from the Plain Dealer Library

Thank you Doc Acton for your courage and for your devotion to us, your Marines.