THE WALL OF FACES

Dear CPL Lawrence Benjamin Banek, 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

Lawrence is buried at Mt Calvary Cemetery in Cumberland, RI. BSM PH

Taken from the website:

http://www.cacti35th.org/regiment/kia/kia_details.php?person_id=579&battalion=2nd

I am a student at Bishop Hendricken High School and I and doing a report on serviceman Lawrence Banek, this is not just any report this report is so that this man will never be forgotten and his name will be put on the wall at Hendricken to be remembered with many others who are already there or soon to be, so I ask if anyone has any information on this serviceman that they would like to share with me, so that he will be properly honored and remembered, if you could please e-mail me at michaelgemma@hotmail.com it would be more than appreciated, thank you

D Company, 2/35th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 4th Inf Division.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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