THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Sgt Merle Higgins, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Your 50th anniversary is in 3 days, sad. Memorial Day just passed when we honor and remember you. Please watch over the USA, it still needs your courage. Rest in peace with the angels.

Sergeant Merle Robert Higgins, Served with Company D, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.

SGT Higgins,

Thank you for your service and sacrifice to our country. When I was in high school your sisters came to talk about an award in your honor. You've crossed my mind many times in the 12 years since and even long before I joined the military six years ago. You're not forgotten, RIP.

PO2 Megan Rodgers, USN
(Jamestown, PA)

It's been so long since you've been gone. Miss you all the time. I remember all the fun we had. Memorial Day is still hard. Wish you were here. It was never the same without you.

Dear SGT Merle Robert Higgins, 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