THE WALL OF FACES

On the remembrance of your 77th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

GARRYOWEN

GARRYOWEN

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.

On August 12, 1969, Communist forces shelled and launched ground attacks throughout South Vietnam in the heaviest outbreak of enemy-initiated action in three months. At least sixteen Allied camps were hit. The fiercest clash came four miles northeast on An Loc when the North Vietnamese Army battered for two hours at the headquarters of the 1st Cavalry Division’s 3rd Brigade. The camp was hit by 107mm rocket fire, then enemy soldiers carrying satchel charges pushed through the perimeter in at least three places. Fire from tanks, helicopter gunships, and point-blank artillery pushed the Communists back. Forty-eight enemy soldiers were found dead after the engagement. Six U.S. Army personnel were killed in the attack. Another 45 were injured. The lost Americans included SP4 Martin D. Childress, WO Francis McDowall Jr., SP4 Stanley A. Mensing, SP4 Lee R. Shaw, PFC William M. Treadway, and CPL Clinton J. Weaver. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and Pacific Stars & Stripes, August 14, 1969]

Dear Sp4 Martin Childress,
Thank you for your service as an Infantryman with the 1st Cavalry. Thanksgiving is coming. This is the month that we remember all those who have passed-on. We remember you. It is so 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 strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.