THE WALL OF FACES

Say not in grief he is no more, but live in thankfulness that he was.

Dear Sp4 Robert Moore, Thank you for your service as a Water Treatment Specialist. Your 50th anniversary is soon, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Thanksgiving is in 2 days, happy Thanksgiving in heaven. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

On November 30, 1970, a 19th Engineer Battalion convoy headed for Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa Province, RVN, attempted to cross the monsoon-swollen Suoi Dau River at the Highway QL-1 bridge. Several of the heavy trucks in the convoy like 6x6’s and ten-ton semis were able to safely traverse the rising waterway. However, when the convoy commander’s ¼-ton jeep tried to get across, the current carried the vehicle away. The driver, SP4 Frederick L. Fields, drowned trying to rescue the commander. Fields’ body was found the next day several hundred yards downstream. The convoy commander, a lieutenant, was able to save himself when he grabbed at some overhanging tree branches and pulled himself from the water. A second engineer, SP4 Robert G. Moore, also drowned the same day after the water tank truck he was driving disappeared into the swift-moving current. His vehicle was found after the water had receded, sitting in a rice paddy, however, there was no sign of Moore. His body was later recovered. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Rodney Skinner (November 2018) and Robert Cobb (February 2010 at vvmf.org)]

Uncle Robert you were always my Hero

Robert's sister Rosemary and niece Anita provided photos for Robert. His basic training, several school photos, He with his parents Bethel and Francis Moore when he was a toddler, He and his sister Rosemary, Robert with his Mother and sisters Pearl, Maxine, Rosemary, Helen and Violet, His Mother & Father and Robert, last photo Robert with his Brother Larry.