THE WALL OF FACES

SGT Antonio Lopez Alho is buried in the Saint James Cemetery in Naugatuck, CT.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

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.

Sergeant Antonio Lopez Alho, Served with the 20th Special Operations Squadron, 14th Special Operations Wing, 7th Air Force.

DEAR SGT. ALHO,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE IN THE AIR FORCE, AND THE GREEN HORNETS.
REST IN PEACE.

On March 26, 1969, a UH-1F (tail number 63-13158) from the 20th Special Operations Squadron (20th SOS) “Green Hornets,” operating out of Ban Me Thuot East Airfield, crashed and burned near D?c My, north of Nha Trang, South Vietnam. The aircraft was flying at about 4,000 feet when it experienced severe vibration and auto-rotation was initiated but during the descent the main rotor severed the tail boom. In all, seven military personnel were lost in this incident: three crewmen and four passengers. The lost crewmen included pilot LTC Frank A. Difiglia, crew chief TSGT Jesse C. Bowman, and gunner SGT Antonio L. Alho. The lost passengers comprised COL Donald G. Lepard, COL JBL Levesque, CAPT Walter C. Booth, and CAPT Robert W. Fields. One source suggests there was an eighth fatality in the incident, a U.S. civilian named Mr. Green. The same source claims there was one survivor, a SGT Joslyn. [Taken from wikipedia.org, coffeltdatabase.org, vvmf.org, and vhpa.org]