THE WALL OF FACES

DEAR MAJOR BENNETT,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A PILOT. YOU ARE STILL MIA.
PLEASE COME HOME.
IT IS 2017, 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. AND HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY.

One more Memorial Day and I still miss you Mickey! You left a big void when you left us so tragically so long ago! Because of you we have Freedom. Today May 30 2016, a Military Family lives in your house on East 5th Street in Hialeah.They say there are no coincidences. I still feel your presence as I walk by your home and see your Dad in the yard, your Mom on the porch you with a baseball bat walking to the park and your Big Brother in the background. Never Forgotten Mickey, Until we meet again~~

I SALUTE SIR.....

On December 22, 1972 a B-52D crew consisting of co-pilot CAPT Thomas W. Bennett, LTC Gerald W. Alley, bombardier CAPT Peter P. Camerota, navigator 1LT Joseph B. Copack Jr., pilot CAPT Peter J. Giroux, and tailgunner MSGT Louis E. LeBlanc departed Utapao on a bombing mission over Hanoi. When the B-52D was about 50 miles northwest of Hanoi, it was hit by Surface to Air Missiles (SAM). Bennett called the mayday and manually ejected the pilot, who had blacked out. Bennett then bailed out himself. The tailgunner later reported that he observed in the bright moonlight that the entire crew of six had deployed parachutes. Three of them, Camerota, Giroux and LeBlanc, were released from prisoner of war camps in Hanoi a few months later in the general prisoner release of 1973. The U.S. was not expecting them. They had not known that the three were being held prisoner. Alley, Copack and Bennett were not released and remained Missing in Action. On June 23, 1989, the U.S. announced that the Vietnamese had "discovered" the remains of Gerald W. Alley and Joseph B. Copack and had sent them home [Narrative taken from pownetwork.org; image from wikipedia.org]

Dear Major Thomas Waring Bennett Jr, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter