THE WALL OF FACES

Corporal Colin James Bach, Served with the Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, Third Marine Amphibious Force.

Hi Cokie, It's been almost 50 years, but you will never be forgotten. When I think of you I remember things we did when we were little kids. I also remember how angry I was when I heard you had been killed. You should have had your whole life ahead of you. You should have come home, and grown old. That did not happen. But I will never forget you.

DEAR CORPORAL BACH,
THANK YOU FOR BEING A RADIO TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. SEMPER FI. PEOPLE ARE DECORATING AND PREPARING FOR HALLOWEEN. IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU WE CAN. REST IN PEACE.

I was from Brooklyn he was from NJ the day he died I had been sent to the rear and was not around when the tragic event happened. Very nice marine, we talked a a lot being from the same area of the country. Along with GSgt Ausmus the two fallen Marines whose names I will never forget. RIP Colin.

I was with Colin when he died. We were in the DMZ on hill 200 waiting for choppers to extract us back to the Rockpile. I was the tactical air control man. We started taking heavy artillery incoming from North Vietnam. The third round exploded on the lip of my foxhole seriously wounding 3 men in the foxhole with me. I escaped injury. Colin was running for a foxhole when the round exploded taking shrapnel to the head. I was trying to get his flak jacket off when the doc tried to tend to his wounds. Colin died moments later in my arms