THE WALL OF FACES

On the remembrance of your 84th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

Dear SSgt Kenneth McKee, Thank you for your service as an OH-58 HELICOPTER REPAIRMAN with the 1st Cavalry. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. 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.

I didn't know my father he went to Vietnam when I was three years old and didn't get to come home to me and our family..I would like for anyone who knew him to get in touch with [email protected]

Dear SSGT Kenneth Dale McKee, 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

On November 30, 1967 a helicopter from 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division was on a night flight, returning from a briefing in Bong Son to An Khe. The poor weather caused the flight crew to switch to IFR. At 2100 hours the aircraft crashed into a mountain top near Doc Pho in Quang Nam province. The crash killed pilot MAJ Stephen R. Porcella and crew chief SSGT Kenneth D. McKee. Co-pilot 1LT Griffith B. Bedworth reportedly survived the crash and lived 1-2 days before dying of exposure. A passenger, CAPT F. Harold Kushner, also survived the crash. Kushner was an Army Medical Corps Flight Surgeon and had broken a tooth and sustained a wound to his shoulder when the helicopter crashed. He was subsequently captured by the Viet Cong. During his captivity, his wife, Valerie, became active in the effort to end the war, believing that was the only hope her husband had of returning home. Kushner became ambivalent about the war himself, and when held in North Vietnam, made propaganda tapes until informed by the more organized prisoners captured and held in the North that it was prohibited. Kushner was released March 16, 1973 from North Vietnam. [Taken from vhpa.org and pownetwork.org]