THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Lt Melvin Sodowsky, Thank you for your service as an Infantry Unit Commander with the 1st Cavalry. Your 76th birthday is soon, happy birthay. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Spring , and Lent. Time moves quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Dear 2LT Melvin Dewayne Sodowsky, 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

Rest in peace with the warriors.

Melvin Sodowsky is fondly remembered by the soldiers with whom he served from “D” Company, 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 50th Infantry. Visit the Website of the Association formed by these 50th Infantry Vietnam Vets at: http:www.ichiban1.org. Post a note on our “Message Board” and possibly some of our members who served with Melvin will respond. Search our site for photos and other documentation and(or) contact me (Jim Sheppard, Association Historian) at [email protected] for details about our Memorial for our men lost in action at the current day 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Headquarters at Fort Benning, Georgia. Memorial Wreath Laying Ceremonies are held every two years at the reunions of the 50th Infantry Association.

Melvin is buried at Lone Star Cemetery in Fairview, OK. PH