THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrances from those who knew you are touching and reflect their admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….

Sometime during the 1980's my wife, our two young sons and I visited the Vietnam Memorial and discovered your name on the wall. At that time all I knew of you was from the index books placed at the site. I was so thankful to come across this site and be able to read a little more about you and your sacrifice. Thank you, though we have never meet, you have been in my thoughts for many years.

kiwi and I met in Okinawa en route to Vietnam, both assigned to the First Marine Air Wing, MAG 12 in Chu Lai. We met at the mess hall frequently and I vividly recall the day of the rocket attack that hit the A/C controllers trailer. It seems as though there was only one rocket and know he was the only one received at MAG 12.I think his brother accompanied the body back to New Zealand. He was a fine man.

CPL James Edward Lott was cremated and his cremains are reportedly buried at Waikumete Cemetery and Crematorium in Glen Eden, Auckland, NZ. It is also reported that his cremains are St. Luke's Anglican Church Cemetery in Mt. Albert, Auckland, NZ.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Semper Fi, Marine

I was a 24 year old Navy HM2 Corpsman assigned to the MAG-12 MABS-12 Field Dispensary at Chu Lai, RVN. My primary duty was conducting sick call for the Marines of MAG-12. I recall hearing an explosion in the distance. I recall hearing only one explosion. I think it was in the afternoon, a sunny day and warm. I remember walking into the treatment room and there on a gurney was a young Marine. A young Marine I now believe to be James Lott. He was beyond saving. He must have died immediately from the severe wounds that he suffered. I had been trained as a Navy Operating Room Technician. Surgery and all that goes with it was routine to me. That warm sunny day I was stunned as I stood beside him. There was no else in the room but myself and the young Marine. He was attended to and I believe transported to Da Nang. Tonight I was looking at a web site about MAG-12 MABS-12. There was a description of that rocket attack on the Ground Control Approach Van and James Lott was the K.I.A. He was the young Marine on the gurney fifty-two years and eight months ago. Now I know his name.