Cecil Franklin Fincher, Jr

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28 May 2001 It is Memorial Day 2001 and 33 years since we last saw each other. I gave you my last can of fruit cocktail the day before, as I was headed out on med evac. I thought that this was my last good measure of friendship. I hope you had a chance to eat it before you bought the farm the next day. To this day I think of you and as long as I live you will not die - my memory of our friendship and camaraderie is timeless. God Bless, Frank. I miss you. Bill Daugherty 313 Main St, Ingram Texas 78025 notjustpigs@maverickbbs.com

A Note from The Virtual Wall The 3/26 Command Chronology for 27 January 1967 reports two men injured severely enough by "explosive devices" to require medevac, both from Kilo Company: At 1045H one man was wounded by a booby-trapped M-26 hand grenade, and At 1239H one man was wounded by an unidentified booby-trap. While HM Fincher was assigned to H&S Company, he would have been in the field with a rifle company and almost certainly was fatally injured in one of these two events. Mr. Daugherty states that he was medevaced the previous day, 26 Jan. The Command Chronology reports only one enemy contact on the 26th, when two recon teams tangled with 10 to 20 VC troops. One Marine, LCpl Kenneth W. Krous of Hastings, Nebraska, was killed in the action and one person was wounded. "You guys are the Marine's doctors - There's none better in the business than a Navy Corpsman ..." -- Lieutenant General "Chesty" Puller -- Visit John Dennison's Medics on the Wall memorial which honors the Army Medics and Navy Corpsmen who died in Vietnam.

The point-of-contact for this memorial is his friend!!!!!, Bill Daugherty HM3 USN FMF (Ret) 313 Main St, Ingram Texas 78025 notjustpigs@maverickbbs.com 28 May 2001

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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
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