THE WALL OF FACES

May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace PFC. Boyd, I salute your brave soul.

Private First Class James Paul Boyd, Served with Battery A, 5th Battalion, 2nd Artillery Regiment, 23rd Artillery Group, Second Field Force, United States Army Vietnam.

James or Jimmy as we called him was raised by my mom and dad and considered them his parents. Growing up he was my co-conspirator, best friend and protector. He would pester the heck out of me but no one else better, lol. He was such a turd but I loved him with all my heart .I had just started dating when he got drafted and that was hard. I gurantee you I was always home on time, least they had to answer to him. I was the last person in our family to see him before he shipped out to Viet Nam other than his wife and I wished I had given him one more hug. I recieved two letters from him after we were notified he had been killed, they were postmakded the morning of that day. Those were the two hardest letters I ever had to read. Later on I had them framed and gave them to his son who was 7 days old when JImmy got killed. I still miss him and will always "Wonder" what he would have been like. I hope he is still singing Alley-oop-oop and and wearing that yellow rose of Texas in his hat band. What sweet memories, love you brother.

I just want to say I love you and miss you

To James sister, i was glad to have known James, he was in my platoon, i was there the very night he was killed, we were pulling our turn on guard duty, i was 2 Tanks up from him, He was a very good Friend.