THE WALL OF FACES

In honor of your dedication and sacrifice to our Country, our Corps, and our CAP unit, on 8 August 2024 the CAP Unit Veterans Association will have a brick engraved with your name installed along the walkway of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, at the Dedication of the Combined Action Platoon Monument.
Thank you for your service to our Corps and Country.
Semper Fidelis.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Lance Corporal David Marshall Haveard, Served with Combined Action Platoon 1-3-4 (CAP 1-3-4), Combined Action Company 1-3 (CACO 1-3), 1st Combined Action Group (1st CAG), Combined Action Program, Third Marine Amphibious Force.

Dear Lcpl David Haveard,
Thank you for your service as a Rifleman. I did the research on you on your 49th anniversary, sad. It is Holy Saturday and Passover. The war was years ago, but we all need to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

LCPL David M. Haveard was a rifleman serving with Combined Action Program 1-3-4, Combined Action Company 1-3, 1st Combined Action Group, Combined Action. LCPL Haveard’s CAP unit 1-3-4 was responsible for protecting the small village of Bin Son in Quang Nam Province, RVN. CAP 1-3-4 had an encampment on a hill about 2 miles from Bin Son where they usually slept during the day and went out on patrols at night. On July 7, 1970, a new Marine to the unit, LCPL Gilberto Garcia, arrived at 1-3-4’s camp. That same evening after the sun went down, Garcia reportedly went berserk while under the influence of drugs and began firing his weapon. He next threw a grenade which fatally injured Haveard and critically injured another Marine when his arm was blown off. The crazed Marine was disarmed and detained and later put on a helicopter for Da Nang. Garcia attempted to jump out of the helicopter while enroute to the Da Nang brig. He was later charged with murder and aggravated assault and upon examination by a psychiatrist, was found to be “dangerously psychotic.” No legal judgment was ever made in the murder case against him as Garcia hanged himself on September 1, 1970, while in pretrial confinement. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, findagrave.com, information provided by Gene Monahan (August 2017), and the book “Fragging” by George Lepre]