THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from your cousin Virginia "Cindy" Jacks is moving and reflects her admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….

Dear Major Glenn Jack, Thank you for your service a VMFA Fixed Wing Pilot. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

My father was a career Marine, too, and he and Maj. Jacks (Capt. when I knew him) were friends. Our families would often get together, sometimes with more families, for cook outs, picnics at the beach, and that kind of thing. The Jacks's oldest child, Craig, was my age. There were lots of good times. The comaraderie between the Marines, regardless of what they were doing, was always very obvious. I also remember the letter that Mrs. Jacks wrote to my mom, at Christmas, 1969. She was pregnant when her husband was killed. She had a little girl, something like four or five months later.

For many years, I assumed that Maj. Jacks's plane had been shot down, and was all there was to it. I didn't know, until I found this page and read another remembrance, that he stayed with his damaged plane, and faced certain death, in order to prevent the plane from crashing into a village.

I went to the wall, in 1993. Maj. Jacks's name was at the top of my list, to find and make a tracing of, as well as some others who were friends of my dad's. It absolutely overwhelmed me! A volunteer came to help me find the names I was seeking. It was several minutes before I could speak, but she obviously understood. Seeing all those names; all of those young men who gave their lives, while many people back home either didn't care, or worse. They deserved infinitely better than they got, but that monument; that tribute, is so powerful that it will touch the hearts of everyone who sees it.

In case any of the Jacks family sees this, please give the rest of your family my best.

Darillyn Lamb Starr
Proud Daughter of Col A. W. Lamb, USMC (Ret.)
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Glenn, I will never forget you my sweet honorable cousin. Though I was much younger than you I admired your service to our country during such a turbulent time. When you did not return to us from Vietnam as we had wished, it broke a lot of hearts especially my own father's, your Uncle Troy. He was deeply grieved having been the one to teach you to love to fly. You will always be in our hearts as we remember the bright spot that you were and will remain for us with that twinkle, smile, in your eyes.

Heaven snatched of good one from us. Blessed Memory Glenn Gates!!

Semper Fi, Major.