THE WALL OF FACES

Some may think you are forgotten
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….

Never forgotten.

Semper Fortis

Dear PO3C Lester Williams, Thank you for your service as an Equipment Operator 3rd Class. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. MLK birthday weekend just passed. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Lester is rests at:
Highland Park Cemetery
615 Jamison St.
Kirksville, Adair County, MO.63501
Plot: Fowler Addition -13
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=williams&GSiman=1&GScid=29298&GRid=61124582

EON3 Nicholas G. Walz and EON3 Lester L. Williams were Navy Seabees serving with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Three (NMBC-3), 3rd Naval Construction Brigade, U.S. Naval Forces, Vietnam. On December 23, 1967, they were operating a pneumatic jack hammer while conducting road repairs on Highway QL-1 north of Hue in Thua Thien Province, RVN, when they struck a road mine. The mine was estimated at 75 pounds of plastic explosive. Both Seabees suffered fatal injuries in the blast. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and U.S. Naval Forces, Vietnam, Monthly Historical Supplement, December 1967]