THE WALL OF FACES

Memorial Day 2025, soon it will be 55 years since you gave your life for this country and the other young men you helped to care for on June 26, 1970. You would be 75 today if you had been blessed to come home and live out your life. I can only imagine how much living you would have put into those 55 years.
How much love and family and struggles and joys. How much helping others if you had managed to go to medical school and become a doctor. A life filled with joys and perhaps a family of your own. We can only imagine. I just read sone of the other rememberances, and it is good to see others besides family think of you. I just heard from one of your friends the other day thinking about you as memorial day and these other days approach. I think of you very often in all of life's events, the good times and the bad, the times I
have wished you where here to lean on or maybe there are times I could been there for you to lean on me. Love you so much dear brother. Until we can see each other in heaven again. Your big sister Patsy Hughens Moore

LZ Baldy (Hill 63) was a fire support base located alongside National Route QL-1 at its intersection with Route 535 in Quang Nam Province, RVN. Originally built as an Americal Division firebase, it became the Regimental Headquarters for the 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division in August 1969. Security for Baldy was rotated between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of the 7th Marines. Significant actions frequently occurred close to LZ Baldy. In a single day, June 26, 1970, the 1st Battalion had five men killed in supposedly routine patrols and ambushes. One died in a grenade explosion while wrestling with an enemy he was trying to capture; three more were lost in a grenade and machine gun attack on their squad's night position; and another was killed when enemy sappers made a grenade attack on a platoon command post. The lost personnel included Marines PFC Clarence Gober Jr., PFC Michael T. Guzzetti Jr., CPL Forest G. Highland Jr., and CPL Otis R. Jones (posthumously awarded the Silver Star medal for valor); and Navy corpsman HN Frederick E. Hughens. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Vietnamization and Redeployment 1970-1971” by Cosmas and Murray]

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from your high school classmate Patricia Stewart is poignant and reflects her admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

On the remembrance of your 71st birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Semper Fi, Doc.

Dear HN Frederick Hughens, Thank you for your service as a a Hospitalman with the 1st Marine Division. Semper Fi. Thank you for the lives you saved. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.