THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. Your Medal of Honor citation attests to your courage and devotion to your fellow marines.As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever.

I am moved by the comments that have been left for my Guardian Angel. Walter was my uncle, he was KIA 1 month before my birth. Knowing how I was growing up, it was a requirement from God that I have a US Marine to watch over me, and I know he is tired!! SemperFi Uncle Zeke!

Dear Sgt Walter Singleton, Thank you for your service as a Machine Gunner, and for your Medal of Honor. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Happy Presidents' Day. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

I had the distinct honor of serving with Zeke for the short time I was with A 1/9. Met him in Oct 66 at Camp Schwab while 1/9 was regrouping to go back into country. We were friends and would hang out at the EM club for a few brews. A very likeable Marine one to be proud to call him a friend. He had a brother that was in 1/9 also and when it was time to leave Okinawa for Operation "Deckhouse V" they flipped a coin to see which would go. He told me he wasn't sure if he won or lost because he went. The rest is history. Think of him often and have visited his resting place. If we say their name often, they will never be forgotten. Semper Fi Zeke.

While I was with A-1-9 some Marines in my company were awarded the MOH, Navy Cross, Silver Stars, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts. Some Alpha Marines were wounded two and three times. Sgt Singleton was a supply Sgt. while the company was at Camp Schwab Okinawa. We had just got back to Okinawa aboard the USS Iwo Jima. 1/9 had just finished Operation Deckhouse V in the Mekong Delta. My 13 month tour was over then. I was ordered home from Okinawa about the 1st of Feb. 1966. Alpha and the rest of 1/9 then went back to Vietnam aboard US Naval ships. Sgt. Singleton later was awarded his MOH posthumously while fighting with Alpha 1/9. RIP.