THE WALL OF FACES

Remembering you on this Veterans Day, November 11, 2017 As it is also your birthday I pray that you have family members left to remember you each and every day.

Dear Spec 4 Thomas Burlile,
Thank you for your service as a Medical NCO with the 1st Cavalry. Thank you for the lives you saved. You died saving others. God bless you. Wish you did not died 5 days after your birthday. sigh. It is important for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

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

During the fighting on November 15, 1965, an Air Force F-100 mistakenly dropped two napalm canisters within the cavalrymen's defensive perimeter. Joe Galloway, a civilian reporter who had come into the Landing Zone, recalls the incident: "...suddenly I could hear [LTC] Hal Moore shouting loudly: "Charlie, call that SOB off of us. CALL HIM OFF!!!" I turned to my left and could see two F-100 Supersabre jets, one behind the other, headed straight for us. The first had just released two cans of napalm. The second was about to do the same. Lieutenant Charlie Hastings, the Air Force Forward Observer, was screaming into his mike: ‘PULL UP! PULL UP!’ The second plane pulled up. That left the two cans of napalm loblollying end over end toward us. Gregg Dillon buried his face in my shoulder. Later he would tell me he had heard if napalm was coming in you should protect your eyes. The two cans went right over our heads and impacted no more than 20 yards from us, the jellied gasoline spreading out and flaming up going away from us. That 20 yards saved our lives, but through the blazing fire I could see two men, two Americans, dancing in the fire. I jumped to my feet. So did medic SP4 Thomas E Burlile. Burlile was shot in the head by a sniper before he could reach the scene." PFC Jimmy D. Nakayama was one of the two men; he died of his injuries on November 17th. [Taken from virtualwall.org]

We nay be cousin's as my mothers
maiden name was Marjorie Burlile I wanted to thank you for serving your COUNTRY and fellow soldiers .I'm sure your in heaven as you have already serve your time in hell From a Fellow Vietnam Vet Sgt Leroy Dodds USMC Rvn68-69-70. TO ALL THOSE ON THE WALL YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MORE THEN A NAME. Sempet FI.