THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. While all deaths in Vietnam are tragic that you died just three days after your 20th birthday is especially so. May you rest in eternal peace.

Dear Cpl Donald Webb, Thank you for your service as a Heavy Vehicle Driver with the 1st Cavalry. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Thanksgiving is soon. Happy Thanksgiving. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Operation MacArthur was a U.S. Army military operation conducted by the 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam from October 1967 to January 1969. The division was responsible for the defense of the provincial and district capitals that lay along National Highway QL-14, an interprovincial paved road that ran north to south through the middle of the Central Highlands. The general mission was to conduct surveillance and offensive operations along the Cambodian border and destroy North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong units within the assigned area of operations. The 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry “Blackhawks” were a mechanized unit attached to the 4th Infantry Division headquarters at Plieku. At 6:33 PM on October 12, 1968, a fuel truck belonging to C Troop, 2/1, received a burst of enemy fire while conducting a resupply mission in Pleiku Province. The driver, PFC Donald R. Webb, was fatally wounded in the attack. He was posthumously promoted to Corporal. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Lessons Learned, Operational Report of the 4th Infantry Division for the period ending 31 October 1968” at ttu.edu]

Dear CPL Donald Ray Webb, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

Donald is buried at Mt Vernon Memorial Park in Fair Oaks,CA.