THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The account of how you dealt with your war injury is inspiring. May you rest in eternal peace.

HOOAH

SP4 David Barbarino died in 1991 from complications from injuries suffered in Vietnam. He died in Naples, FL, and is buried in Section 23, Crucifixion Mausoleum, Good Shepherd Aisle, Crypt 231, Level E of the All Souls Cemetery in Chardon, OH.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

The war may be forgotten but the warrior will always be remembered !!!! All gave Some-Some gave All. Rest in peace David. :-(

On April 13, 1970, A Battery on FSB Bastogne in Thua Thien Province, RVN, received two enemy mortar rounds which impacted in one of the gun pits. One man from Service Battery, SP5 Larry E. Francis, was killed and another, SP4 David A. Barbarino, was critically injured. Three men from A Battery, SP4 Troy V. Canady, SP4 Clifford J. Earnhardt, and SP4 Kenneth L. McCarty, were also killed. Five personnel in the area were wounded. There was no damage to equipment. SP4 Barbarino was medically evacuated after a shard of mortar casing put a hole in his back the size of a baseball and severed his spinal cord. More than a year of operations and recovery in hospitals in Guam and Japan could not restore feeling in or use of his legs. Barbarino vowed upon his return to the United States to walk again and did so by learning to prop himself up with a cane in each arm and fling his lower body forward. Only in his last few years of his life did he use a wheelchair. Barbarino died on November 26, 1991, at the age of 42. His name was added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in 1996. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, 1stbn83rdartyvietnam.com, and info provided by Susan Clark, Library Assistant I, Willoughby Public Library, Willoughby, Ohio]