THE WALL OF FACES

Private First Class Carl O'Neal Henly, Served with Company A, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.

Dear PFC Carl O'neal Henly, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

Carl is buried at City of Lubbock Cemetery, Lubbock, Lubbock County,TX. BSM AM PH

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

John,

I'll never forget the great times we had together shooting pool and winning all night at the Starlight Club, and our double dates together with some great girls. We signed up to join the Army together to serve our Country. We had great times in basic and and advanced infantry training. We flew to the Nam together and that's where we split up ... you to the 1/327th and me to the 2/502nd regiments of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle in July 1969. We were brothers-in-arms; two Nam grunts. I remember our parting looks and our "in-country" letters to one another. I thought I saw you once during a major redeployment on Highway 1, just north of Phu Bai ... I screamed your name but you never heard it over the din of choppers and deuce-and-a-half's.

The next I heard you were killed in action, and I was extracted from the boonies because your father arranged for me to escort your body home.

I was so sad, it was a long sad trip. I still miss you, John. You were my best friend. We were like brothers.

You gave your life in service to your country. There is no greater sacrifice. You are a hero, a warrior, and a patriot. You will never be forgotten. You will be loved forever. Your memory will be with me in my heart til I catch up to you in the after-life. I salute you and all the Nam KIA's.

God Bless you, my friend,
God comfort and rest your soul
Bill Nelson
2/502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne, Nam 7/69-9/70