THE WALL OF FACES

Even though I didn’t know Stuart Binkley, I know of his unit, C Battery, 8th/4th FA with it’s 8” guns at A-4 about 10k from North Vietnam. I was the XO of C Battery, 5th/4th FA with 155mm guns at C-2 about 5k south of A-4. At the time everyone had just gotten back from the operation towards Laos, and for the next few months both A-4 and C-2 were under constant rocket attack.

Rest in peace with the warriors.

Firebase A-4 Con Thien the closest to the DMZ is where he was KIA. I was there arround that time. Incoming EVERY day!

The young warrior does not speak.

Nevertheless, he is heard in the still houses: who has not heard him?

He has a silence that speaks for him at night and when the clock counts.

I am young. I have died. Remember me.

I have done what I could, but until it is finished, it is not done.

I have given my life, but until it is finished, no one can say what my life gave.

My death is not mine, it is yours. It will mean what you make it.

Whether my life and my death are for peace and a new hope or for nothing, I cannot say. It is you who must say this.

I leave you my death, give it its meaning.

I was young, I have died, remember me.

Stuart is buried at Indian Creek Cemetery, Indian Creek TWP, Pulaski Co, TN.