THE WALL OF FACES

I am honored to have known and served with Bob. He was an amazing airborne trooper who cared for others. He could always be counted on and he handled the M-60 machine gun like it was a part of him.
Bucky Cox
C/3/506th
101st Airborne

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrances from those who served with you are touching. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us....

DEAR SPEC 4 BALDWIN,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A GRUNT - PARACHUTIST. TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY, AND I FEEL IT IS IMPORTANT TO HONOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIED IN SERVICE TO THIS NATION. AND VETERANS' DAY IS APPROACHING, MAY THE SAINTS AND ANGELS GUIDE YOU. REST IN PEACE.

Reading all of what you, his fellow soldiers, said I am so touched that all of you thought so much of him but why wouldn't you? Bob and I were briefly married and too very young to make such a commitment but he was my first real (as a teenager) love....I did love him dearly and he me but we were from very different backgrounds and a year a half after we married, we lost a baby boy....Then he was drafted and no one that I know encouraged him to go to Viet Nam but he was there and the rest is history.....After all these years, I still have such strong feelings for him..Love you Bob---

SP4 Robert E. Baldwin was a rifleman, carrying an M-60 machine gun for 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 506th Infantry (Currahees). On February 6, 1967, his unit was participating in a combat assault near the Phu Bon Hamlet in support of an ARVN element. When his squad leader was wounded and pinned down in an open area in front of a large gray pagoda by Viet Cong forces, SP4 Baldwin bravely brought fire upon the concealed enemy. While standing in the open, firing his M-60, an enemy rocket-propelled grenade hit him in the chest, exploding and killing him instantly. His squad leader, SGT Paul H. Cline, also lost his life, and over thirty U.S. soldiers were wounded in the hostile action. [Taken from the book My Gift to You by Jerald W. Berry]