THE WALL OF FACES

I am your daughter and I named my 1st born son after you. You would be so proud of your grandsons. The oldest looks alot like you and they both have your tender heart and patience. A wonderful trait you have passed on thru us unknowingly. Grandma (your mom) has been a wonderful teacher of lifes lessons. She is truely missed as well. Someday we will all be together again. Until then, please continue to be our angel, guide us and watch over us. We thank-you

Rest in peace with the warriors.

Douglas is buried at Fairview Cemetery, Shantytown, Maries County,MO. DFC BSM-2OLC ARCOM PH-OLC

CPT Gaylord served with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 9th Division Artillery, 9th Infantry Division. He was killed in action during a night-time artillery spotting mission near Dong Tam in the Mekong Delta. The 0-1 Birddog that he was riding in was brought down, killing him and the pilot.

I am the daughter of Douglas Gaylord. I would like to hear from anyone who knew my dad and has stories to tell or information about my dad or pictures of him. You guys that served with him are the only link that I have left to knowing my father. My mother won't talk about him and his mother who raised me, passed away 5 years ago. She talked to me often about him and I have a few letters that she had received from correspondence with a service man that was suppose to take a trip w/ my father to Australia. I never knew he wanted to go there until after she passed away and I read the letters. I have ALWAYS wanted to go there but never could understand the urge to go until the pieces came together after I read the letters. If you are that friend of my fathers or know anything about his trip he was planning to Australia before he died, would you please write me and tell me what he had in mind and what you knew of him. I still have alot of unanswered questions as you might imagine. I promise it's nothing too hard!