THE WALL OF FACES

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Steve was my uncle, his brother George was my dad. I never met Steve, but have heard great things about it. Taken way too young.

Steve was a friend of mine that was taken from us much too soon. He was a groomsman at my wedding.

Dear Steven Robert Frese,
I want to thank you for your service and all the hard work, plus sacrifices you have made for this country. I could not thank you enough for everything you have done!

Operation MacArthur was a U.S. Army military operation conducted by the 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam from October 1967 to January 1969. The division was responsible for the defense of the provincial and district capitals that lay along National Highway QL-14, an interprovincial paved road that ran north to south through the middle of the Central Highlands. The general mission was to conduct surveillance and offensive operations along the Cambodian border and destroy North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong units within the assigned area of operations. On September 11, 1968, D Company, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry was at Fire Support Base 32, located three miles west of Ben Het in Kontum Province, RVN. During the early part of the day, FSB 32 received nine rounds of possible 120mm mortar fire. In the afternoon, between 3:05 PM and 4:30 PM, forty-six more rounds of 120mm mortar fire were received, resulting in one American killed, infantryman PFC Steven R. Frese; one other person was wounded. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Lessons Learned, Operational Report of the 4th Infantry Division for the period ending 31 October 1968” at ttu.edu]