Below are 17 reasons why it’s called Memorial Day and not Picnic and Barbecue Day.
LCPL CARROLL FANKHAUSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 8/24/65
PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/20/65
CPL BRIAN GAUTHIER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65
LCPL REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 1/25/66
1STLT WALTER LEVY, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 9/18/65
PFC CURTIS LOCKHART, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/30/65
PFC PATRICK MANNING, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/30/65
LTCOL JOSEPH MUIR, 3d Battalion, 3d Marines. 9/11/65
PFC STEVEN PAGE, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 1/25/66
2DLT JAMES PARMALEE, 2d Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/14/65
1STLT FRANK REASONER,3d Reconnaissance Battalion. 7/12/65
LCPL KENNETH SEISSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65
1STLT ADAM SIMPSON, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. 10/3/65
PFC LONNIE SNOW, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/30/65
SGT HUGH SULLIVAN, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/5/65
1STLT BRUCE WARNER, 3d Tank Battalion. 2/3/66
SGT WILLIAM WEST, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 3/28/66.
Semper Fi, Brothers.
Mr. Caputo –
It’s 03:16 here on Chicago’s Southside. I’ve just finished “A Rumor of War.”
A Scout Observer (0846) attached to 1/3’s various companies from ’67 through ’68, I can look across to the top of my book shelves where a “9th MAB” patch leans up against a photo of Bravo’s C.O. and two other F.O.’s I worked with.
All these years later, it was still difficult to put a Rumor down till the story was, at last, finished.
Nicely done Gyrene.
I grieve for your loss.
I looked on this list for the 2 men you dedicate A Rumour of War to – Walter Levy and Hugh Sullivan. A book that moved me so much, I felt compelled to find their names on the Vietnam memorial in Washington when I visited from the UK many years ago. I’m on perhaps my 3rd or 4th copy of the book now and it is re-read every few years. I mark some of the passages that I find the most arresting. One of which is when you find out about the death of Walter Levy. In my opinion one of the best pieces of prose ever written. How you go on to describe him is beautiful, breathtaking, powerful and heartbreaking. You did him justice as you do the other brave men you served with. I never knew Walter Levy, but because of your book I will never forget him.
Thank you.
Thank you a thousand times for your too-generous comments.
Very thoughtful Phil
I did not serve in Vietnam
due to my railroad injury and crushed
arm
I did lose friends I knew from school and the railroad
I gained so much respect for those that lost there lives
I transferred many remains from APO San Francisco between
trains when I worked for the Union Paific RR in Ogden, Ut
Ogden, Ut was a large interchange between Souther Pacific and Union Pacific