THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever....

On behalf of those who served with you in the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) and all who followed, we offer our respect and remembrance of your ultimate sacrifice. May you never be forgotten and your family and friends take comfort in your valor in serving.

Dear Sgt Arlin Collins,
Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Today is the last day of 2017, Happy New Year, and it is the 7th Day of Christmas. 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.

Thank you Sergeant Collins for your leadership and exemplary courage under fire.

Just before his death on August 28, 1968, Arlin painted the remains of a wall of an old French fort at the IDP where we were located with his rendition of a Holiday Inn sign. It became known to those of us in Charlie Company, 2nd/16th, as "The Holiday Inn" IDP. One of the most prominent memories for the guys who served during 1968 was the Holiday Inn and the events that took place there. It is often brought up at our annual reunions, so, my wife, Gail Francis, decided to paint the picture to honor those fallen and survivors of the Holiday Inn.