THE WALL OF FACES

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

Dear Sp5 Marcus Stoen, Thank you for your service as an Armor Crewman with the 1st Cavalry. I researched you on your 73rd birthday, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Memorial Day is soon, and we honor you. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

I work with Nancy Rooks and came to visit you on Thanksgiving 2017. Thank you for your service.

We joined up together. I took the 90 day delayed entry. You went to Germany as a tank commander. After my 1st tour in Nam, I went to Ft Bliss TX, then volunteered for another tour in Nam. You then volunteered to go to Nam and in Quang Tri Province, your tank was hit and you suffered burns over 80% of your body. You were medevaced out to Camp Zama Japan. You had a nurse write a letter to me in Can Tho, Me Kong Delta. In it, you told me not to worry, you would make it. March 14, 1971 you died. Not old enough to vote or legally drink. I was requested to bring you back home by your parents, Morris and Sarah. Some of the saddest times of my life. In 2008 I rode the Run For The Wall to LA then to DC for Rolling Thunder and back home on my Harley. I left a shirt there I had made for you at the wall containing my tears. I'll remember all of our hunting trips, drinking, skiing behind the car on our old Norwegian skis, doing the "chores", North Immanuel Lutheran Church, picnics, swimming and fishing on Lake Olaf, evening coffee and cake at different neighbors farms on summer evenings... You, David Aas and me, the 3 musketeers, workin at the Turkey Plant and hanging around at the TF (Tastee Freeze) in PR (Pelican Rapids). I miss ya and I'm so sorry for all you've missed.