THE WALL OF FACES

David is buried at Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill,OK.

2LT Gray was killed in action while serving as a Forward Observer with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division.

I have his name, but I've never met him. My mother, his sister, tells me how much I remind her of him. He called her Boo, I call her Mom. His was a life too short, like so many.

An insight into some of the conditions that 2LT Gray experienced can be read in the nonfiction book "Mekong First Light" by Joseph W. Calloway, Jr., published by Presidio Press. We all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to 2LT Gray and the other members of our military who gave so much.

I remember talking to David's parents just before I left for Vietnam. They had just lost their son the month before and it was a sad moment assuring them, through their tears, that I would take care of myself.
I had just finished training in the C-123 aircraft and was leaving the next week for SEA.
Very few of us from the Sterling class of 1961 served in Vietnam and David's name is the only one from our class on the school memorial.
I hope you found peace David.