THE WALL OF FACES

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

Never forgotten.

HOOAH

Remember to 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...

Dear Sp5 Cecil Jackson, Thank you for your service a Personnel Specialist. Your 49th anniversary is in a few days, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It's the end of summer and Labor Day is soon. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

On August 26, 1970, CPT Ha Thuc Nhan, a South Vietnamese Army doctor, barricaded himself in the Nguyen Hue military hospital in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province, RVN, beginning a four?day armed siege. The doctor, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, had been accused of killing a hospital administrator, MAJ Tran Van Hien, after his body had washed up on a Nha Trang beach. Informants said CPT Nhan's action had been apparently touched off by his anger at being accused of having shot and killed MAJ Hien. CPT Nhan's accusers said his motive for killing MAJ Hein was that the major was corrupt, asserting that MAJ Hein had sold for personal profit rice rations intended for the hospital's 700 patients. During the siege, passers?by were fired on as they drove past the hospital gate by armed patients who fired from behind trees and cement walls. Three people were caught up by the gunfire, including a U.S. Army bus driver, SP5 Cecil Jackson Jr., who died after being hit. SP5 Jackson was Personnel Specialist serving with the 21st Supply & Service Company, 54th General Services Group, Army Support Command, Cam Ranh Bay. It was reported that as many as ten Vietnamese, mostly civilians, had been killed during the incident. The episode ended when four armored vehicles blasted their way into the hospital compound and killed CPT Nhan. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Hospital ‘Siege’ In Nha Trang Ends.” New York Times, September 1, 1970]