THE WALL OF FACES

Blair, You are remembered and honored. Rest With the Warriors.

Private First Class Blair William Two Crow, Served with the 3rd Platoon, Company D, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division.

PFC Blair W. Two Crow died of wounds received in action in Vietnam on December 4, 1968. According to an eye witness and a fellow soldier, Ken Quale, the soldiers came down from the mountains around dusk and had just dug their fox holes for the night when suddenly PFC Two Crow and a few other soldiers were hit with the fragments of a friendly mortar round fired at hostile forces. Ken Quale reported that Blair Two Crow stayed calm throughout the whole time while medics put the tourniquet on and was the last one loaded into the helicopter. Quale recalls Two Crow just sitting there with a very calm look on his face, gazing into the distance. Blair’s parents were working in Gordon, Nebraska, when an airman came from a local base to tell them that Blair had been killed. It was very hard on the family and “broke” their father. Although Blair died on the 3rd, his body wasn’t returned until much later in the month in a glass-topped casket with Blair’s cousin as escort who had also been in Vietnam—five miles apart from Blair. After the funeral at St. Barnabus’ Episcopal Church, Blair was buried with military honors at the Church’s cemetery in Kyle. Among his awards, Army Private First Class Blair Two Crow received the Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle and Automatic Rifle Bars, the Vietnam Campaign Ribbon, Combat Infantryman Badge, Vietnam Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Heart. [Taken from sdvietnamwarmemorial.com]

Dear PFC Blair William Two Crow, 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, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

Blair is buried at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Cemetery, Kyle, Shannon County,SD.