THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Cap Stephen Whisenant, Thank you for your service as a Rotary Wing Aviation Unit Commander - Helicopter Pilot. I researched you on the 52nd anniversary of the start of your tour. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It's the last week of 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.

Steve and I were in infantry OCS at Ft Benning . We graduated ,went to Ranger school together. We were assigned to camp Merrill in dahlonega, as in structors in the Ranger school. He was best man at my wedding in Dahlonega. We were separated sometime after Vietnam. My name is Julian Martinez.

This is February 09, 2021, fifty years ago you lost your life in defense of others.

You were my oldest cousin on my mother's side.After all these years I will always love and miss you.You were so brave and such a great warrior I only wish you could have come home alive one more time.I know I Will see you again in Heaven.

Captain Stephen Lee Whisenant, Served with Company D, 101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Aviation Group, 101st Airborne Division.