THE WALL OF FACES

God Bless YOU.. Long ago I read The Green Berets. I didn't know at the time that one of the characters was mirrored after you. Sometimes I wish that I wore the GREEN BERET.
SEMPER FI, MY FRIEND.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the remains of former MIA Major Larry Alan Thorne, U.S. Army Special Forces, were recovered in 1999 and accounted for on 6 December 2002:

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000v2uk6EAA

On the date of his loss, 10 October 1965, Captain Thorne was a member of MACV Special Detachment 5891 and a passenger in a South Vietnamese H-34 Choctaw helicopter that crashed while on a combat operation near Kham Duc, South Vietnam. While in MIA status, the U.S. Army promoted him to the rank of Major with his contemporaries. The Army later officially declared him "deceased" and then closed his active military file.

The "Friends of Rocky Versace" remember one of Rocky's brother Paratroopers and a fellow Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment, former MIA Major Larry Alan Thorne, U.S. Army Special Forces, on what would've been his 101st birthday - 28 May 2020.

Former MIA Major Larry Alan Thorne, U.S. Army Special Forces, has his name chiseled into one of the stone "Courts of the Missing" (Vietnam Court, Army Section "B") at the Honolulu Memorial in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/thorne%3Dlarry

Former MIA Major Larry Alan Thorne, U.S. Army Special Forces, was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment in 2010.

https://www.soc.mil/SWCS/RegimentalHonors/SpecialForces.htm