THE WALL OF FACES

Cpl Langdon "Don" Burwell is buried at Woods Hole Village Cemetery in Woods Hole. Massachusetts.

In honor of your dedication, service, and sacrifice to our Country, our Corps, and our CAP unit, on 8 August 2024 the CAP Unit Veterans Association will honor you by having a brick engraved with your name installed along the walkway of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, at the Combined Action Platoon Memorial.
Thank you for your service to our Corps and Country.
Semper Fidelis.

Corporal Langdon Gates Burwell, Served with Combined Action Platoon Delta-1 (CAP Delta-1), 2nd Combined Action Group (2nd CAG), Combined Action Program, Third Marine Amphibious Force.

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. Your letter home is thought provoking and insightful. May you rest in eternal peace.

I am just reading things that you wrote while you were in Vietnam. You were right to have empathy towards the enemy. I was moved by your letter you wrote. They were fighting for a cause that was inspired by their leader, Ho Chi Min.
In 2004 my wife and I traveled to Vietnam from Cambodia at the time of the Tet holiday. Saigon was beautiful with millions of flowers. The we toured the Mekong Delta and saw very creative operations making goods. The up to Hue to Ho Chi Min’s mausoleum. Hoi An was a treasure of antiquity having been spared from bombing. Then up to Hanoi and to see the contrast in the way business is conducted. Capitalism in the south, old Communist ways in the north. Still two divided parts. But the people were so warm and friendly especially when they knew we were Americans. Our guide in the Mekong Delta greeted us with hugs and tears remembering how wonderful the GIs treated him. The country is united and that was Ho Chi Min’s dream. You were destined for greatness my friend but your memory lives on. RIP Donny