THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you so much for your service and forming America into the great country it is today. My grandfather also served in Vietnam as well. Thank you for all you have done and your great sacrifice you made.

You have done so much for our country and we couldn't thank you enough. All of your efforts were worth it in the end. Thank you.

Thank you for your service. we appreciate everything you did for this country and you sacrificed your life for we could have a good one. I couldn’t thank you anymore.

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. May you rest in eternal peace.

During the first quarter of 1969, the 577th Engineer Battalion conducted Rome Plow land clearing operations along Highway LTL-7B from Tuy Hoa to Cheo Reo in Phu Yen Province, RVN. D Company, 16th Armor, provided security for the engineers and was the principal combat element to support the Phu Yen Provincial chiefs. They also furnished security at the Tuy Hoa North Airfield and acted as a Rapid Reaction Force. At 11:50 AM on March 2, 1969, an element from D/16th Armor was escorting a work party of 577th Engineers on LTL-7B when they were ambushed by an estimated seven to eight Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Automatic weapons fire hit one of the vehicles, killing the driver, engineer PFC Warren L. Beacham. A second engineer was also wounded. Beacham was posthumously promoted to Corporal. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Lessons Learned, Headquarters, 173d Airborne Brigade, Period Ending 30 April 1969” at ttu.edu]