THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It remains my fervent hope you will be returned home after the passage of so many years.

To James, I am heartbroken to know you have not been found. But I want you to know your life has been honored by the name of my wife Story Newman. While you are only related through your mother, you live on in memory through her. May you rest in peace.

Dear Pvt James Story, Thank you for your service as a Heavy Vehicle Driver. Your 53rd anniversary is soon, and you are still MIA. Please come home. 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. Be at peace.

Never forget.

HOOAH

On June 13, 1969, a large U.S. convoy was traveling west on Highway QL-19 towards Pleiku Air Base when it was ambushed by the North Vietnamese Army. The caravan, containing more than 150 vehicles from various companies of the 8th Transportation Group, originated at Phu Cat Air Base and was attacked about fifteen miles west of An Khe. Two Americans were killed, drivers SP4 James “Chuck” E. Pulley and PVT James C. Story. Both were hauling ammunition in M54 5-ton 6x6 cargo trucks near the front of the convoy. Story’s 6x6 was hit broadside by an enemy B-40 rocket causing the artillery rounds he was carrying to explode. The blast sent shrapnel into the cab of Pulley’s truck behind Story’s, wounding him in the forehead. The NVA then descended on the crippled vehicle and opened fire, critically wounding Pulley. He was alive when pulled from the truck after the battle and medivacked; he died the following day. No remains of Story were recovered after the explosion and fire which consumed his truck. He is still carried as missing. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by John D. Burnell (July 2019)]