Dedicated To

Private First Class Roger Charles Nesbit

Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines

3rd Marine Division

United States Marine Corps

Just a year ago today, my son, you left this lowly earth

So far from perfect - yet who can judge her worth

Beset with inner turmoil - so torn apart with strife

I only hope that in the end, dear, she's worthy of your life

You gave your life so gallantly - standing on that hill

You and thousands like you - was it God's will?

My country, right or wrong, was your philosophy

If that was good enough for you son, then it has to be for me

Fair Winds and Following Seas

"When I was growing up, the Vietnam War was some vague, distant thing which was treated like a dirty word. It was this silence - compounded by the flip remarks of my liberal teachers in school about My Lai, drug addicts, and psychotic Vietnam veterans. It bothered me greatly......I began to research the subject and I went to the only source that really mattered, the men who were there."

Keith Nolan - Battle for Hue