THE WALL OF FACES

While cleaning out my Mother's belongings, I found the MIA bracelet of your loved one she wore for years. Our military family lived in South East Asia during the early years of the French Vietnam conflict. Let me know where I could forward his bracelet to the family. Thanks you.

Master Sergeant Russell Peter Bott, Served with Detachment B-52 (Project Delta), 5th Special Forces Group, United States Army Vietnam.

I began wearing Russell Bott's bracelet in about 1993. I was teaching a modern American history class in England and,as usual, I always made a point to discuss the human cost of Vietnam not just the politics and then tell Russell Bott's story. This particular year (2003) I had a girl named Kirsty Bott in the class. She went home and told her parents about the lesson and came back the next day with a letter from her mother telling me that Russell was in fact an American relative of theirs. In fact Kirsty's great uncle. You are not forgotten Russell Peter Bott. NH

While going through the memories and cherished possessions of my mother who recently passed, I found an original and very old MIA bracelet with Master Sergeant Bott's name. I would love to pass it down to a member of Russell's family so please contact me

DEAR MASTER SERGEANT BOTT,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A SPECIAL FORCES COMBAT ENGINEER. YOU ARE STILL MIA.
PLEASE COME HOME.
SUNDAY WAS THE 42ND ANNIVERSARY OF PRESIDENT FORD CALLING THIS DAY THE OFFICIAL END TO THE WAR. IF IT WAS ONLY THAT EASY. I AM SO SORRY. 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.