THE WALL OF FACES

Dear SP4 Larry Dean Boyer, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, Sir

Curt Carter

Larry is buried at Tower Heights Cemetery in West Frankfort,IL. BSM PH

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

It has been over thirty-five years since we last saw each other and I still remember that moment that will live with me forever.

America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but why is America called that? Thousands of American's lives given up for this country is what makes this the land of the brave and home of the free. Maybe you voluntarily signed into the army, maybe you were drafted. I do not know the answer to that, but you were willing to give your life so that I may have a life of freedom. Your bravery carved a huge chunk out of history. It paved a way for future Americans, so that we may live a life full of freedom. Even though this is a post for the "Gridley High School Posting Project," this is a topic that weighs heavily on my heart. I may never understand why you sacrificed your life for your country. I can only speculate an answer to that question, but i thank you for your hard work and dedication and even for the life that you gave so that I may have a life in one of the greatest countries in the world.