THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. We should be forever thankful for the sacrifices of you and so many others to ensure the freedoms we so often take for granted.

Never forgotten.

HOOAH

You will forever remain in our hearts and prayers

Dear Willie Rascoe, Thank you for your service as an Indirect Fire Infantryman. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Independence Day just passed. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

SFC Willie R. Rascoe Jr. was an Indirect Fire Infantryman serving with E Company, 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th Infantry Brigade. On April 9, 1970, SFC Rascoe died at the burn center in the U.S. Army’s 106th General Hospital in Yokohama, Japan. Rascoe had been critically burned in an incident in Binh Duong Province, RVN, which the Army reported took place while he was a passenger in a military vehicle when an explosion occurred. However, the following account by Stanley J. Rzasa tells a different story of how Rascoe was injured: “I was with SFC Rascoe that day in April when three of us and over fifty civilians were burnt. It was not a crash and it was not an ammo dump. We were getting ready to burn excess mortar charges when someone yelled ‘food.’ A crowd of Vietnamese civilians mobbed us thinking it was cheese. SFC Rascoe tried to get the women and children off the pile when another kid ran up and threw a cigarette into it, igniting it and burning SFC Rascoe, myself, and another sergeant. We survived, but unfortunately, he did not. He was a very good man and we would have done anything for him.” [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Stanley J. Rzasa (July 2008) at thewall-usa.com]