"Xin Loi, Sorry About That"

This web tour of duty began on July 21, 1997

In Memory of

"Sammy" Martin
101st Radio Research Company (ASA - COMSEC)
Killed in Action, May 17, 1968

He died during his second tour in Vietnam
but he "lives" on the "Wall" and in our hearts

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end. - Shakespeare

Iraq - 2003
A Tribute to Shawn D. Pahnke Killed in Action
son of COMSEC Veteran Tom Pahnke

And to those who did not return

"There but for the grace of God go I" - The mortar attack at TSN

SSG Donald D Daugherty, KIA April 13, 1966
"I saw the flash of the mortar shell and I heard the cries for "Medic!"

SGT, 101st Airborne - KIA, Sept 19, 1968
Same family name Banuelos - no relation