THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PO3C Ronald Neal, Thank you for your service as Radioman 3rd Class with SEAL TEAM 1. Your 75th birthday is soon, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It’s a New Year, but not necessarily better. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Thank you for stepping up and answering your country's call. Rest easy knowing you will never be forgotten.

Radioman Third Class Ronald Keith Neal, Served with Kilo Platoon, Seal Team One, Mobile Riverine Task Force 116 (TF-116). Montani Semper Liberi !

On 7 April, a SEAL reconnaissance team suffered heavy casualties while engaging an enemy unit near the mouth of the Vam Sat River, in the Bung Sat Special Zone . The SEALs were conducting reconnaissance by fire from their armored LCM-3 when the enemy opened fire from positions on the bank.

As the SEALs began returning the enemy fire, three SEALs were killed when a Viet Cong mortar round burst above their amored LCM, forward of the coxswain's position, showering the boat with shrapnel. The Two SEALs were LTJ5 D. M. MANN, USN, and Interior Communications Electrician Third Class D. E. BOSTON, USN, A third died on April 21, 1967 from his wounds. Radioman Third Class R. K. NEAL, USN and wounded 12 other Americans and two Vietnamese. The team withdrew to the Soirap River in order to evacuate the wounded.

Dear RM3 Ronald Keith Neal, 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