THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from David Prevo is moving. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever.

I was the medic in Delta 1/7's third platoon when FNGs Ken and Robert Durall came to us. Ken was big and strong, good natured and confident. Bob was skinny and nervous; I called him Skinny Bob and the nick name stuck. Both men learned fast and became good grunts. Two months later I rotated out of the company to a rear job. I remember saying goodbye to 3rd platoon: holding back tears, shaking hands with Ken, Skinny Bob, the others. When I heard Ken and Skinny Bob had been killed, how it happened, coming in from an ambush, cut down with two other men, I wept.

Marc 'Doc' Levy
Delta 1-7 First Cav Nov 69-Nov 70
Vietnam/Cambodia

Corporal Kenneth Dale Bills, Served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army Vietnam.

DEAR CORPORAL KENNETH BILLS,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN INFANTRYMAN WITH THE 1ST CAVALRY. A FRIEND'S BROTHER WAS 1ST CAV. SAY HI TO MIKE. IT HAS BEEN FAR TOO LONG FOR ALL OF 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 ANGELS BE AT YOUR SIDE. REST IN PEACE. MANY OF US HAVE BEGUN OUR JOURNEY TO EASTER. YOU ARE ALL IN OUR PRAYERS.

Dear CPL Kenneth Dale Bills, 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