THE WALL OF FACES

Some may think you are forgotten
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….

Dear CWO William Vick, Thank you for your service as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart . Autumn has begun. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Almost 50 years and he is stilled remembered. A Marines Marine Proud to have served with him.
Semper Fi

My dad John Wilken was a Navy EOD Instructor with Mr Vick in Indian Head, Md. His little girls Tammy and Gussie were very close friends and we played together daily. His wife, their mom, Shirley Vick was one of my mom's best friends. I still remember the day we heard the news. Saying thank you for your service and sacrifice just will never be enough.

At 0730 hours on August 30, 1968, CAPT James W. Jones, CWO William L. Vick, and SGT John R. Beck responded to an urgent request from Special Forces to render safe and recover an unexploded 122mm rocket which had impacted within the Special Forces Camp at Ha Thanh, located 25km west of Quang Ni in Southern I Corps. CAPT Jones, CWO Vick, and SGT Beck arrived at the Special Forces Camp via chopper at 1035 hours. They walked uphill to S-3 operations, entered operations shack, and were receiving verbal instructions on the locations of the dud round when at 1040 hours an incoming 122mm made a direct hit on the shack. CAPT Jones, CWO Vick, SGT Beck two Special Forces personnel, intelligence specialist MSGT Tadeusz Sosniak and radio operator PFC Richard E. Traster, and a civilian interpreter were killed in the blast and five wounded from this one round. [Taken from a declassified Command Chronology report from August 1968]