THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PFC William Roberson, Thank you for your service as a Field Radio Operator. I researched you on the 53rd anniversary of the start of your tour. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 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.

Billy, I only lived in Abilene, Texas for 5 years when my dad was stationed at Dyess A.F.B. and knew you at Cooper High School. Remember you as a fine young man. You died too soon. I will always remember you and your service to a grateful nation. Rest in Peace. Will see you again! Mark Radzinski

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

Forever 18.

Semper Fi, Marine.

Bill, thank you for your sacrifice. You are not forgotten.
God Bless
VN VET (68-69)

Hi Billy,

Remember me? I will always remember you. We met at the coed dance at the YMCA in Abilene. I was fourteen and you were one year older than I. You were the first boy that ever kissed me. There was never a sweeter boy than you. You told me how your father had been a Marine and had gone to Korea when you were a baby. He died there leaving you and your mother alone in West Texas.

I don't think I was as nice or as gracious to you as I should have been. When I took my son to Washington D.C. to visit a college in the area we took in the sites of the capital. Of course, we went to the Vietnam Memorial. I had heard that you had lost your life in the war but I wasn't sure. So I checked to see if your name was on the wall. It was. I touch the panel on which your name was engraved and began to weep like a child. My son was bewildered. But when I explained that you were my first boyfriend he held my hand and tried to comfort me. I want you to know I made a trip to Vietnam to find you. I needed your forgiveness for not being mature enough back then to realize what a gift you were. I'm 64-years-old now and I wish so much that you were still on this earth so that I could tell you how special you are and what you meant to me then and how much you mean to me now. I will always hold you in my heart. And I hope to see you again someday, hug you, and tell you how how you made my heart sing when you kissed me. And that I have never, and will never, forget you. Thank you for that first sweet kiss.