THE WALL OF FACES

We thank you for your service and sacrifice. You are remembered, not forgotten because we utter your name with respect to honor you.
Heart of Texas Veterans Memorial.

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.

On the remembrance of your 70th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

Dear Sp4 Douglas McCorkle, Thank you for your service as a Wheeled Tractor Operator. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Yesterday was the 56th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Time passes quickly, but our world needs help. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

Lai Khe Base Camp was an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and U.S. Army base located along Highway 13 to the northwest of Saigon, RVN. On April 25, 1970, the base was hit by enemy rocket fire. One of the rockets slammed into the barracks occupied by engineers from B Company, 554th Engineer Battalion. Three were killed in the blast. They included SP5 Jeffrey B. Dodge, SP5 William F. Dacus, and SP4 Douglas P. McCorkle Jr. Dacus was reportedly only days from be rotated back to the United States. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by James Bryant (December 2012) and Dan Smith (November 2004) at thewall-usa.com]