THE WALL OF FACES

Remember to 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...

Dear Sp4 James Van Cedarfield, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is the end of summer. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Thank you for your service. I’m sorry you were killed by friendly fire as the report states. I pray that your family has peace in their hearts. My brother also was an SPC4 and served with the 173rd ABN. He was infantry and was killed the month after you were by the enemy. I know there is a special place in Heaven for all who served our country. May God rest your soul.

Jim ,still think of you often, we roomed together for that month or two in Ft. Devens. Then we went to different Platoons. I hear the gun fire but had no idea what happened til much later. You were such a fine man. God Bless

SP4 James R. Van Cedarfield served with B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, 196th Infantry Brigade. On December 12, 1966, his unit was on a roving patrol during darkness in the vicinity of Nui Ba Den Mountain and in action searching for hostile forces. The presence of enemy soldiers was imminent and when SP4 Van Cedarfield made a movement, he was mistaken for hostile force and was fired on by friendly forces, suffering a fatal gunshot wound to the neck. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]