THE WALL OF FACES

Dear ,Lcpl Samuel Reeves Thank you for your service as a Rifleman. Your 71st birthday just passed, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Yesterday was the 57th anniversary of the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

On the remembrance of your 70th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Forever 18.

Semper Fi, Marine.

we went to ujh in austin and you to ahs and me to rhs later but always kept in touch had a lot of good times with bobby o and danny a. Lots of friends still bring up your name

Sammy you were a classmate at Austin High School. We were acquainted but not really friends. You are in my 1966 and 1967 yearbooks but didn't make it to the Senior 1968 yearbook, presumably because you had enough of school and dropped out to enlist in the Marines. I remember talk of that, and later how you were killed a few months in country. In high school you had a little bit of a reputation of someone to not mess with if one didn't want a fight. I was a little afraid of you. I remember one time sitting beside you on a bench in PE, both of us in gym shorts. Coach said something kind of dumb and funny. You and I looked at each other and had big grins on our faces. I wasn't afraid of you after that. Our 50th class reunion is coming up. You are my face of the Vietnam war. Rest in peace.

Dear LCPL Samuel David Reeves Jr, 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