THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

SP4 Robert Lee was a Food Service Specialist serving with Headquarters & Headquarters Battery (HHB), 1st Battalion, 83rd Artillery, 108th Artillery Group, XXIV Corps. On March 29, 1971, Lee was critically burned at Gia Le Base Camp in Thua Thien Province, RVN, when the burner unit on a field range (stove) exploded. He was medically evacuated to a U.S. Army Hospital burn center in Japan where he expired two days later. At the time of his death, Lee had nearly twenty years of Army service, including eleven months in Vietnam. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org; obituary from The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), April 6, 1971, courtesy of Dan Schwartz, Library Associate, State of Arizona Research Library, Phoenix, AZ]

Taken from the Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), April 9, 1971, courtesy of Dan Schwartz, Library Associate, State of Arizona Research Library, Phoenix, AZ.

Never forgotten.

HOOAH

You will forever remain in our hearts and prayers