THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PFC Clair Westlake, Thank you for your service as a Military Policeman. Your 53rd anniversary is soon, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Advent, and Christmas is soon. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Private First Class Clair Lloyd Westlake Jr., Served with Company A, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Group, 18th Military Police Brigade, United States Army Vietnam.

PFC Clair L. Westlake Jr. was a military policeman serving with A Company, 720th Military Police Battalion. On New Year’s Day 1969, he died from injuries he received a few days previously while a passenger in a military vehicle on an escort mission when the vehicle overturned, throwing PFC Westlake into the path of another military vehicle. He was medically evacuated to a military hospital in serious condition where he later succumbed to his injuries. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]

Dear PFC Clair Lloyd Westlake Jr, 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

Clair is buried at Memorial Park in Pine Bluff, AR.