THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It remains my fervent hope you will be returned home after the passage of so many years.

Never forget.

HOOAH

Dear CWO William La Grand, Thank you for your service as an Utility & Light Cargo Single Rotor Helicopter Pilot. You are still MIA. Please come home. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. For many of us, we have begun Lent. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

Bill, I'm now a docent at the Palm Springs Air Museum where we're adding a Vietnam Hanger including a memorial wall and bracelet collection. I was happy to see that you're properly honored in the memorial but greatly saddened to wonder what might-have-been for you these 50 years later.

I fondly remember the good times we had when we were young and how much you loved flying. You were a good student and I'm proud that you became a military pilot.

A bracelet in your honor has been added to the Palm Springs Air Museum Viet Nam Memorial.

Dear CWO William John La Grand, 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, Sir

Curt Carter