THE WALL OF FACES

Met you in Hawaii Jan.'67. NAD Waikele. Only knew you for 3months but you befriended me and I will never forget you. You took a few of us to see your grandmother one time and she played some of your grandfather's old music. You really enjoyed that. Will see you again some day, for more than 3months though. Semper Fi Marine

Soupi and I spent all our off time together when off duty. He took me to meet his family and we spent long hours on the beach talking about how we would stay in touch after the corp. He wanted so much to visit the states and sell everything. I often times would tell him about upstate New York where I lived and green and wooded it was. He made my time on the island and adventure and we did and redid trips every where. I don't think their is day that goes by that I don't think of him. Soupi was as good a friend as anyone could ever hope for and I miss him to this day.

Section J - Grave 406

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE FOR OUR COUNTRY. MANUIA LOU MALAGA.

I went through boot camp with (then) Pvt. Suapaia. I remember him as a fun-loving boy who the drill instructors--especially Sgt. Reyes--liked and actually treated with some level of kindness, unlike most of the rest of us. Sgt. Reyes called him, "Soupy Sales" after a popular TV entertainer of the time. I honor his memory, along with two other members of Plt. 311, Donald Haskins, Dayton, Ohio, and Douglas Haddix, Springfield, Ohio, who were all killed in action in Vietnam, 1966. There may have been others, I never learned. Some of us were reservists who never were called upon to do what those courageous boys did. Rest in peace, brave lads. I have never stopped thinking of of all of you over a long life time.

Best wishes to any relatives still remaining, and know that his/their memory is still alive in those of us who spent 16 weeks together in the warm California sun in 1965 at San Diego and then at ITR , Camp Pendleton.