THE WALL OF FACES

War drew us from our homeland
In the sunlit springtime of our youth.
Those who did not come back alive remain
in perpetual springtime -- forever young --
And a part of them is with us always.

Perhaps the last photo ever taken of him. Please contact me and I will send it to you.
He had just received the Bronze Star Medal in an Awards Presentation I attended.
I took this photo and I have been caring it for 52 years hoping to give it back to the family.
We were in Flight school; together and I want his son/daughter to have this photo.
I met his wife and daughter? in the Spring of 1968 in Mineral Wells, TX during flight training.

I never met a man who didn't like Don.

I was stationed in the 269th Combat Aviation Battalion Headquarters in Cu Chi. The 187th Company was one of the companies in our Battalion.
Please send me an address or call me and I will send the original photo to the family.
It's time it came home.

PS - Happy 73rd birthday today.

Dear Cap. Donald Kilpatrick, Thank you for your service as a Rotary Wing Aviation Unit Commander. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Advent, and we are beginning our preparations. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

Captain Donald Robert Kilpatrick, Served with the 187th Assault Helicopter Company, 269th Aviation Battalion, 12th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade.