THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. We should be forever thankful for the sacrifices of you and so many others to ensure the freedoms we so often take for granted.

Dear PO3C Robert Wickliffe, Thank you for your service as a Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class with the 26th Marines, Semper Fi. Thank you for the lives you saved. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is the 7th Day of Christmas, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Doc, I love you. You were my senior corpsman. I was your 1st platoon corpsman.
We saw intense action on Jan 19 & 20th, off the Hill 881 S. A battalion of NVA waited to ambush us. Remember how we lost more than half our unit? The medevacs, the downed choppers we had to rescue?

That night more NVA, possibly division sized, attempted to overrun our sister hill 861... but together, we repulsed them after hours of combat.
The next morning back on the hill, as a working party of marines were wounded at the chopper LZ, while unloading ammo and water, a subsequent mortar round took you out just as we had joined the scene. You were seriously injured. I medevac'd you to Khe Sanh base Med bn, where you succumbed to your wounds the next day. Gosh "Doc", you dreamed of going to Med School. You were brave, and you loved your marines. Thank you for setting the high bar for me....as the next senior corpsman to stand in. TET '68 the Battle for Khe Sanh. India 3/26, 5MarDiv attached to 3rd MarDiv, RVN.

On the remembrance of your 75th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Semper Fi, Doc.

Thank you for your devotion to us, your Marines.