THE WALL OF FACES

Carl is buried at St Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Sassamansville,PA.

Gary was born in Pottstown and graduated from Boyertown High in 1966, and the former Reading Business Institute. He was an avid reader and enjoyed music. Drafted into the Army, only a month after being married. He was addigned to the 1st Air Cavalry Division, Vietnam in August 1969. He was killed in action against enemy forces near the Cambodian border less than three weeks after arriving for duty. Surviving at the time of his death was his wife Linda, a son Gary (whom he never saw), mother, father, one sister, and two brothers. He was in Vietnam three weeks when he was killed at the age of 20.

I often think of you.
Roy A. Knepp
(SFC, USA, Ret.)
1966 classmate

Gary was an avid reader and enjoyed music, especially movie sound tracks.
He was born in Pottstown and graduated from Boyertown High School in 1966, and the former Reading Business Institute.
Gary was a member of New Hanover Lutheran Church.
Employed at Jacob Pattern Works, Stowe, he was drafted in March, 1969, only a month after being married. He was assigned to the First Cavalry Division in August, and was killed in action against an enemy force near the Cambodian border less than three weeks later.
He was survived at the time by his wife, Linda, his mother, his father, one sister, and two brothers.
Also surviving is a son, Gary, whom he never saw.
Gary was 20 years old.

From the Berks County Vietnam Memorial dedication booklet.

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heros you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers