THE WALL OF FACES

I’ve worn a POW/MIA bracelet since the 70’s. Two MIAa remains were found and returned, so in 1993 I received another bracelet, this one in stainless steel. It bears the inscription
LTJG RICHARD C CLARK
USN 24 OCT 67 NVN
I have worn this bracelet everyday since, to bed, taken showers, riding my bike. Only medical procedures and airport security got me to remove it, and everytime it was the first thing I put back on. I felt lost without it. Even since you have been returned to the US, I will continue to wear your name and share your story and those who sacrificed their lives during the war.
“We are only truly gone when the last person who knows our name, speaks it for the last time”
Cúirtéis a dhéanamh Lt. Clark. Fair seas and calm winds. Rest your oars Brother.

LT Richard Champ Clark is buried in the New Veterans Section, space 446 of the Mountain View Memorial Park in Lakewood, WA.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Welcome Home

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. I am heartened you were returned home after the passage of so many years. May you rest in eternal peace.

Richard Champ Clark was my square dance partner in the third, fourth, and fifth grades at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA. I did not graduate with that class at Stadium because I moved to California. I was very sad when I learned that he was missing in Vietnam, but am pleased that he has been found. I remember him well.

Georgia Hill

Information about the loss of an F-4B Phantom from VA-151 launched from the USS Coral Sea on which former MIA Lt(jg) Richard Champ Clark, USN, was the Radar Intercept officer (RIO), in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 24 October 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1419

While in MIA status, the U.S. Navy promoted Lt(jg) Clark to Lieutenant along with his Navy contemporaries.