THE WALL OF FACES

Sergeant Jim Glenn Bell Jr., Served with F Troop, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 196th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, United States Army Vietnam.

Jim........Honoring you on your birthday.....Never forgotten........God Bless

Your mother is my grandmother, and she loved you and missed you so very much.. She was so proud of you for your service , but so broken hearted to lose her baby to the war... She has since passed and is with you in heaven, reunited with her baby for all eternity. We all of us here in the family miss you and love you, until we meet again kiss my grandma for me..

DEAR SERGEANT BELL,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A GRUNT. IT IS A NEW YEAR, WHICH MAKES IT FAR TOO LONG FOR YOU TO HAVE BEEN GONE. WE APPRECIATE ALL YOU HAVE DONE, AND YOUR SACRIFICE. WATCH OVER THE U.S.A., IT STILL NEEDS YOUR COURAGE.. GOD BLESS YOU. MAY THE SAINTS AND ANGELS BE AT YOUR SIDE. REST IN PEACE.

I SERVED IN VIETNAM IN 66' & 68' I THE U.S. NAVY AS A COXSWAIN AS A BOAT COXSWAIN WE LANDED PERSONAL AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN VIETNAM . I WAS 17 YEARS OLD WHEN I JOINED I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL I WAS VERY FOCUSED AT THE TIME SO MY FATHER SAID WHAT NOW ? I'M JOINING THE N A V Y !!! . I WAS TRAINED TO DRIVE THE LCVP ,LCM, AND LCVPL. ALL LANDING CRAFT . WE PERFORMED MOST OF OUR DUTIES WITH THE USMC . SOME OF MY CLOSE FRIENDS WERE ARMY . WE HAD ALLOT OF FIGHTS ARGUMENTS ON WHICH OF THE 3 WERE THE BEST. I CAME HOME FIRST .I ONLY WISH YOU ALSO COULD OF TOO, I HAVE'NT A CLUE OF WHAT OCURED ON THAT DAY? BUT I WISH I COULD OF SAVED YOUR LIFE. IN SOME WAY BUT LETS NOT GET UNREAL . AS YOU CAN SEE LETTER WRITING IS'NT MY EXPERT'I BECAUSE I REALIZE I WAS PRAYING ONCE I LANDED I WAS SCARED JUST AS YOU WERE ,I'M PROUD OF YOU IKE YOUR FAMILY MUST BE TOO. GOD BLESS YOU AN I HOPE YOU REMEMBER ME ONCE I ARRIVE IN HEAVEN . I ALSO WAS EXPOSED TO AGENT ORANGE WITH DIABETES-2 MY MIND IS'NT SHARP ANYMORE YOU CAN SAY I'M LOSING MY FACAULTIES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. GERARD HUTCHEON LYMAN S.C.