THE WALL OF FACES

Love You & Miss You.
To my Husband
May

Private First Class John Lee Allen, Served with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army Vietnam.

PFC John L. Allen was an artilleryman serving with C Battery, 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. On August 6, 1969, PFC Allen died at Quan Loi Base Camp (LZ Andy) in Binh Long Province, RVN, from a reported drug overdose. The Army regarded his death a suicide. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]

DEAR PFC ALLEN,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A FIELD ARTILLERY BASIC. ARTILLERYMAN WILL ALWAYS HOLD A SPECIAL PART OF MY HEART.
I HOPE YOU SHOOK THE HAND OF A FRIEND'S BROTHER WHO WAS ALSO 1ST CAV WHEN HE ENTERED PARADISE.
REST IN PEACE.

Its been a long time, cuz. The family reunion at your folks farm South of Smithville, Mo, in 1960 or 61, I think. I may have just now found this site, but I want you to know; you were loved; are still missed; and have family who feel cheated in not being able to have had you grow and mature through this life with them; and live to a ripe old age.

That unpopular war took too many lives; Ruined too many families; Wrecked too many good men and women. But PFC John Lee Allen, I am Proud to call you family.

Dan Hoagland, USAF, Ret.