THE WALL OF FACES

I’m so proud that you are my brother. I love reading all the wonderful things other people have written about you. I was 11 when you were killed and at the time didn’t realize just how young you actually were. I still remember lots about you and I share those things with my kids and grandchildren. I love you Cokie. Till we meet again in heaven.

I knew Cokie for years through school. We graduated from Neptune High School in 1966. I thought he was a smart, likable kid. I remember that he was meticulous about how he dressed. From time to time I think about those we lost in Vietnam. A whole life missed. He would have been 74. I look at his picture and it brings me back to our early years before we had to deal with the draft, the military, and Vietnam. Cokie enlisted. I had no idea he wanted to be a marine. He was a patriot and a hero. I appreciate his sacrifice now more than ever.

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from your brother Walter is especially poignant. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us....

Words can never express the emptiness & sorry my Family and I felt at the passing of Colin.
There is rarely a day that goes by that I don't think about you and especially on this Fourth of July 2021.
My son Walter Jr and daughter Kelly Bach never knew their Uncle. He was such an honorable man.
He gave his life in what he believed in and died a Marine.
God Bless.
You are loved.

I attended Neptune High School with Colin. He was a good student. Very smart. He could have gone to college. Many of us wondered why he didn't go, but he always said that he wanted to be a Marine.