THE WALL OF FACES

I'm sitting here today thinking of you and the day you came home for the last time and you were laying on the couch and I'm a dining room and ice cream was there was a man on the couch that's the last time I saw you I miss you playing the guitar for me I miss you punching me in my arm and giving me a frog that did hurt you know but we all love and miss you and still hope that you're coming home love Pam your sister

As a former childhood neighbor, I always prayed over the years that your remains would be found. I am still praying! Rest in Peace Andrew T. Brassfield.

Dear Staff Sergeant Brassfield,
Thank you for your service as a Special Forces Qualified Infantryman. I read you are still MIA,
Please come home.
Independence Day is approaching, and it is important for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

HERO.....AMEN

SSGT Andrew T. Brassfield was assigned to MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observation Group). MACV-SOG was a joint service high command unconventional warfare task force engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia. The 5th Special Forces channeled personnel into MACV-SOG (although it was not a Special Forces group) through Special Operations Augmentation (SOA), which provided their "cover" while under secret orders to MACV-SOG. The teams performed deep penetration missions of strategic reconnaissance and interdiction which were called, depending on the time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions. On April 6, 1970, SSGT Brassfield was operating in Laos with a team known as Reconnaissance Team Missouri on an intelligence gathering mission. The team was operating about 5 miles inside Laos east of Muong Nong in Savannakhet Province. As the team stopped for a rest, it came under heavy enemy fire. In attempting to gain better cover, Brassfield was fatally wounded. The remaining team members were unable to recover his body because they had all been injured and were unable to carry him while trying to break contact with the enemy. Brassfield was never found. [Taken from pownetwork.org]