THE WALL OF FACES

You gave your life for your Country and for this we Salute You.

Roy is buried at Sunset Memorial Park in San Antonio, TX.

I did not know LT Cochran but want to wish him and his family the peace of the Lord as we approach another Memorial Day tomorrow and we remember those who have fallen and the families they left behind.

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

In February 1968 while applying a dressing to an injury on LT's foot, we talked about home. It was late evening, and in the fading light he told me that his wife had recently delivered their child. He spoke of the love he had for his wife and newborn child and how much he wanted to see them.

Whenever I hear someone say they would have served but did not because they were married and had children, I share LT's story with them.