THE WALL OF FACES

Billy, Brother - 1st thank you for your service we are all proud, 2nd - thank you for having a very special person, to you & now me, paths cross - your Uncle Pat Vallee, without a doubt thinks of you often & hold you with the utmost highest regard, our paths crossed a few years ago & I think very highly of your Uncle giving him all the respect in the world, 3rd & lastly - through Uncle Pat donating information to our "display case" thank you for the fond memories of years past, I will always be grateful to you for that. May God bless you & keep you always at His side.

Dear CPL William Michael Sebast, 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

William is buried at St John's Lutheran Cemetery in Albany, NY. PH

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

I came to see you the morning of Nov.11,2005. I was in D.C. for the Marine Corps Birthday and my Dad asked me to look you guys up for him. My Dad was there the day you died. He has never forgotten you guys,one day I'll bring him to see you also. The day before us Marines laid a reef at the Wall I thought of you guys also.