THE WALL OF FACES

Never forget.

HOOAH

Dear SFC Michael Wallace, Thank you for your service as a CH-47 - Chinook Helicopter Repairer. You are still MIA. Please come home, Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart . Halloween is soon. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Be at peace.

I am the Curator of the POW/MIA Bracelet Display in the Vietnam Hangar of the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California where we now have over two thousand bracelets and would be honored to include your bracelet in our Display. If you are an immediate family member (spouse, fiancé, sibling, son, daughter or grandchild) I can order one for the Display in your name.
Dr. Dave Thompson
Palm Springs Air Museum
POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator
Lt. Commander U.S. Navy 1964-1970
10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270
760-328-0859 [email protected]

I saved my paperboy pay for 3 months to buy a POW bracelet; I delivered the Stars and Stripes off base on Okinawa in '69. I still remember the little old lady pausing as she handed it to me; "now you understand you're promising to wear this until he comes home, don't you, dear?" Yes'm. I do. SFC Wallace is never coming home. His bracelet is still on my wrist.

I wore Michael's bracelet in High School and took it to college with me. As I watched the POW's land and come off the plane, I wanted him to be one...I wanted him to not be MIA anymore. One of the remembrances here is the first information I have ever obtained regarding what may have happened to Michael. I am 65 years old and long out of college. I don't know what happened to my bracelet. I may have set it aside with the realization that I was not going to see the outcome I hoped for. However, I have never forgotten the name and I have found it on all the walls...Washington D.C. and both versions of the traveling wall (the last one being this summer in Bourbonnais,Il). Rest In Peace, and to Michael's family, I have thought of you often over the years.