THE WALL OF FACES

In honor of your dedication and sacrifice to our Country, our Corps, and our CAP unit, on 8 August 2024 the CAP Unit Veterans Association will have a brick engraved with your name installed along the walkway of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, at the Dedication of the Combined Action Platoon Monument.
Thank you for your service to our Corps and Country.
Semper Fidelis.

War drew us from our homeland
In the sunlit springtime of our youth.
Those who did not come back alive remain
in perpetual springtime -- forever young --
And a part of them is with us always.

Dear PFC Charley Mount, Thank you for your service as a Rifleman. I researched you on your 52nd anniversary, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is 3rd Week of Advent, and this week means joy. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Charley Mount and Bill Blair were sophomores at Norman High School when I met them. They, along with Marla J., and I shared a table in an open area study hall. I was a senior, and I certainly enjoyed the time we all spent, together. It was only an hour a day, five days a week, but it is something I will always cherish, for we all got to know each other really well. Bright and excellent sense of humor...wise beyond their years... This would describe Charley, Bill and Marla. I can't think of one of them without thinking of all three. I graduated from NHS in 1966 and then went off to college away from Norman; so, I don't recall seeing Charley or Bill after that. However, I did see Marla. I believe I learned from her that Charley and Bill joined the U.S. Marine Corps on the "buddy system." When I was a junior in college, either late December of 1968, or early January, 1969, I heard a radio announcement of Norman servicemen lost in combat in Vietnam; both Charley and Bill were named, as I recall, and three others. It was a very sobering reality. Prior to that, I only knew of one other Norman person killed in Vietnam. I could see their smiling, youthful faces and it really hit me hard. It still does. I lost a number of friends in Vietnam. It is heartfelt to read Charley's story of his self-less act on behalf of his fellow marines. I am an Air Force veteran and served shortly after Charley and Bill and was not in combat. Only marines have the right to say semper fi. However, I do have the right to salute Charley, and so I'll salute both Charley and Bill, both marines who gave their all for Our Country. S A L U T E !

Thank you for this narrative about Charley and his actions.
Charley was a Patriot--a First Class Patriot.
He was also a damn good soldier--and a damn good Marine.
Semper Fi Charley.