THE WALL OF FACES

my respects and thank you for your service

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. Your story, as detailed in earlier remembrances, is humbling and inspiring. Rest in eternal peace.

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Thank you for stepping up and answering your country's call. Rest easy knowing you will never be forgotten.

Thank you all for leaving a remembrance to SP4 Alvarado. I am his niece Donna. Leonard was a kind hearted man. What many do not know is 2 weeks before he was to come home he asked to return to the frontline. He had written to his sister Violet that he could not live if his men were killed because he wasn't there. Shortly after he wrote to his sister Esther and told her "pray for me sister for I am afraid I will not be coming home". One week before his discharge his mother received the message he was killed in action. She never got over losing him but we all knew it was something he had to do. He gave his life for his brothers and that's the man he was. One of the men that was in the company they were called to assist told me that half the men were dead and the other half severely wounded. I am sorry for your lose. Thank you for your remembrances. His legend will live on.

DEAR SPECIALIST 4TH CLASS ALVARADO,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN ARMY GRUNT WITH D COMPANY, 2ND BATTALION, 12TH CAVALRY REGIMENT, AND THE 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION. A FRIEND'S BROTHER SERVED IN THIS UNIT. I HOPE YOU GREETED HIM IN HEAVEN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MEDAL OF HONOR. MIKE ALSO WAS KILLED IN PHUOC LONG. WISH ALL OF IT DID NOT HAPPEN.
REST IN PEACE.