THE WALL OF FACES

A Company, 2/35th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 25th Inf. Division.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Goodbye, America's heroes, we have shamefully failed to stand by you, for all the wrong reasons, which had tempted us aside! Now we must pay the price for letting those who survived down, as well knowing some who didn't have to die have died! We must honor them every day when we see their names upon the Wall! And from every corner of the land, they answered to the call! Every SOLDIER, sailor, airman, and Marine and Coast Guardsman, too...they all gave their lives so we could live beneath the old Red, White, and Blue. For those who've gone before, we say "WELL DONE! Be thou at peace!" We salute PFC Denis Abbott, USA, whose devotion to DUTY...whose devotion to HONOR...and ABOVE ALL!...whose devotion to GOD and our COUNTRY!...the land that he loved...the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave...will never...I say again...will NEVER be extinguished from our minds!

Best friends for too short of time. I still think about you often and I expect that I will see you at home with Lord some day soon.

Carl Brumbaugh