THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from your classmate Sharon Donahue is touching and reflects her admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever.

Dear Sp4 George Underwood, Thank you for your service as a Special Forces Qualified Medical NCO. Thank you for the lives you saved. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. 9/11's anniversary is soon. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace SP4. Underwood, I salute your brave soul. My heart goes out to you and your family.

Specialist Four George Warren Underwood, Served with Detachment A1-312 (Buon Brieng), 1st Special Forces Group, United States Army Special Forces Vietnam, United States Army Support Command Vietnam, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), United States Army Vietnam.

George and I graduated the same year,1960, from Quincy High School. He was a very good looking,well liked and quiet spoken young man. After graduation, I wasn't sure what he had been up to until a few years later, I saw his picture on the front page of the local newspaper,stating that he had been killed in Vietnam. I was very sad thinking of how his life had ended so young. I thought a lot about him after watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary on Vietnam this past week. I'm now 74, as old as George would have been had he lived and I think of all the things he missed out on that I had been able to experience, such as marriage, having children and grandchildren. It's great that George was involved in building a school and it seems so much in his character to do something like that . That the school is named after him is a great honor to him.I knew quite a few young men from our city who went to Vietnam, but George was the only one I knew who was killed there. He'll always have a place in my heart and I hope that he rests in peace.