THE WALL OF FACES

Eddie and I grew up in Fairless Hllls and were friends throughout grade school and high school. After graduating I went off to the Army and last saw him at a Pennsbury High School football game in 1966. It was there that he announced to me he was joining the Marines. It was a real shock reading about him in 1968. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about him and what a great American and patriot he was. Thank you Ed for everything you gave for this country.

I went to Vietnam with the Marines onApril12,1968...Eddy was killed a month later.my mom and his were friends and it nearly killed them both.

I love and miss you Ed and will look for you in Heaven

Don

Edward is buried at Rosedale Cemetery, Trevose,PA

Ed was a quite guy,we hung out at the bowling alleys next to his dads gas station on newportville rd. He was reluctant to go with us anywheres in fear of disapointing his dad.But we still had fun at the station and Reenees Pizza.Ed was hard working and a heart the size of the moon.I often wonder what would have become of him had he survived? In my thoughts and heart always. You have been missed.Now its time to outen the lights. SP/5 Gene Darrah Friend

Marine Lance Cpl. Edward N. Beers, 20, son of Adam and Leona Beers, of Guilford rd., Fairless Hills.
Cpl. Beers was killed last Thursday by a fragmentation bomb in a battle near Quang Tri. A member of the 1st Marine Division, he had only 109 days of combat remaining the day he died.
His father said Cpl. Beers' letters always mentioned his desire to return home and work in the family service station at Emilie and Oxford Valley rds. in Bristol township.
One letter, scrawled on a C-ration container, was written in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, which Cpl. Beers learned in Vietnam from a friend. It read in part: "Ik wil naar huis gan."
The Marine's parents are Pennsylvania Dutch and they translated it as this: "I'll be home soon." They thought it good news.
Cpl Beers graduated from Pennsbury High School in Levittown in 1965, joined the Marines in March 1967, and was sent to Vietnam last August.
Besides his parents, Cpl Beers is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Carolyn Simmons, Virginia, Cindy and Bonnie, and three brothers, Wayne, Jerry and Adam Jr.

Photo and article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on May 28, 1968.