THE WALL OF FACES

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

Specialist Four Forrest Lee Bolin, Served with Company A, 52nd Signal Battalion, 2nd Signal Group, 1st Signal Brigade, United States Army Vietnam.

I remember Forrest as a good soldier and proud father of his newborn son. On that terrible day during the Tet Offensive you were taken away from your fellow signalmen and you family by a mortar round that hit our barracks. I think about this day often and unfair it has been to you and your family. May your memory be eternal.

SP4 Forrest L. Bolin was a Field Radio Repairer and SP4 James Johnson Jr. a Communications Center Specialist. Both soldiers served with A Company, 52nd Signal Battalion. On February 6, 1968, they were at Can Tho Base Camp, west of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta in Phong Dinh Province, RVN, when the base came under a hostile mortar attack. Both Bolin and Johnson suffered fatal fragmentation wounds during the assault. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]

DEAR SPEC 4 BOLIN,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A FIELD RADIO REPAIRER. 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. YOU ARE ALL IN OUR PRAYERS. IT WAS JUST EASTER - GOD'S BLESSINGS ON YOU.