THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PFC Ernest Taylor, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman with the 1st Cavalry. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Independence Day is next Monday. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

On the remembrance of your 79th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

GARRYOWEN

Ernest Edward Taylor
ON THE WALL: Panel 3E Line 96
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PERSONAL DATA:
Home of Record: Kaycee, WY
Date of birth: 10/13/1941
MILITARY DATA:
Service Branch: Army of the United States
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Private First Class
Promotion Note: None
ID No: 55757309
MOS: 11B20: Infantryman
Length Service: 01
Unit: C CO, 2ND BN, 7TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV
CASUALTY DATA:
Start Tour: 08/17/1965
Incident Date: 11/17/1965
Casualty Date: 11/17/1965
Status Date: Not Applicable
Status Change: Not Applicable
Age at Loss: 24
Location: Pleiku Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Repatriated: Not Applicable
Identified: Not Applicable
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Gun or small arms fire
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dt/TaylorEE03a.htm
Data accessed: 7/4/2018

He was a Soldier and he died a Soldier’s Death...fighting with his friends and comrades till the end
God Bless You
And God Bless All who died with you

The Ghosts of the Green Grass tells the story of the horrific encounter of the 2nd of the 7th Cavalry, First Cavalry (Airmobile) on 17 November 1965. Ernest was a member of Delta Company on that day and died near Snyder Bembry...Ernest was one of a handful of Benning's Main Post soldiers who did demonstrations at Benning for the various schools when he along with friends was pulled into the 2/7 1st Cav division weeks before we deployed to Vietnam...the operation Shiny Bayonet was the first big one we were in and on the 17th we encountered the 8/66th NVA and the 1/33rd NVA as we walked across the jungles to a place called Landing Zone Albany