THE WALL OF FACES

Horace is buried at Rock Island National Cemetery.

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

STAFF SERGEANT

HORACE EARLE YOUNG


who served with


DETACHMENT - 34

5th SPECIAL FORCES GROUP

1st SPECIAL FORCES


was a posthumous recipient of the


PURPLE HEART

NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL

VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL

REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CAMPAIGN SERVICE MEDAL


and was entitled to wear the


COMBAT INFANTRYMAN BADGE

and

ARMY PARACHUTE WINGS



On 11 May 1965 the Special Forces camp at Song Be, Phuoc Long Province, was attacked by a large Viet Cong main-force unit.

Five American soldiers are known to have died that day, two from the Special Forces and three from MACV's Special Detachment 5891.

While there is no absolute evidence, it appears that the MACV advisors were at Song Be.

The five men were

* Captain Henry Albert Deutsch
Palatka, Florida
MACV SD-5891

* Staff Sergeant William Donavan Benning
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MACV SD-5891

* SSG Horace Earle Young
Aledo, Illinois
DET B-34, 5th SF Grp

* SP4 Amos Carlton Watson
Wilson, North Carolina
MACV SD-5891

* SP4 Johnie King Culbreath
St Petersburg, Forida
DET B-34, 5th SF Grp

Captain Deutsch was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart medals.

He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.





THE PROUD YOUNG VALOR THAT ROSE ABOVE THE MORTAL
AND THEN, AT LAST, WAS MORTAL AFTER ALL





YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

NOR SHALL YOU EVER BE





20 JULY 1999

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Frye – 1932

If I should die, and leave you here awhile, be notlike others, sore undone, who keeplong vigils by the silent dust and weep. For MY sake, turn again to life and smile...Nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do something to comfort other hearts than thine. Complete these dear unfinished tasks of mine, and I perchance may therein comfort you.