SP4 OWEN EDWARD MEBUST

OWEN EDWARD MEBUST

Manuel Pino Bco 2/8th 1st Cav 68-69
mpjr54@msn.com
Fellow Vietnam Army Vet
527th MP Co/ 716th MP Bn, 18th MP Bde

"Step forward now, you soldier, You've borne your burdens well. Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets, You've done your time in Hell." Author Unknown

Jul 16, 2007

Grateful American
Fellow Californian
American Hero
Thank you SP4 Mebust for your ultimate sacrifice. Rest well brave soldier and rest assured that you Sir, are not forgotten.
Monday, January 31, 2005

Charles Sullivan
csull58161@aol.com
served with him
106 Possum Lane
Fair Play, SC 29643 US
SPC Mebust was a member of the 527th MP Co and was killed at the U.S. Embasy at the beginning of the TET Offensive.
Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Jim Burroughs
jburoz11@yahoo.com
Friend and Former Comrade in Arms
11713 Montague Ave.
Bakersfield, CA 93312 USA
To My Fellow MP
To Owen: It's Jim Burroughs, from way back in Saigon, 1968, with the 527th Military Police Company, 716th MP Battalion. You were the guy from MP School at Fort Gordon who showed up late for Vietnam because you took a slight 6 month detour on the DMZ in Korea. When I asked you to explain your sudden appearance in the Nam, you said, "Hell, I figured as long as I was going to be gotten shot at, I might as well be getting Combat Pay." Oh Owen, how I wish you hadn't been such a brave idiot. When you went on your patrol that fateful night of Jan 31, 1968, I had just gotten off my patrol, having driven all over Saigon in the evening until 2AM with a Viet MP. I had driven by the Embassy a few hours before you with not a hint of what was to become your fate. You see, the VC had chosen 3:30AM as zero hour. Any how, I still think often of you, and my MP mentor and your patrol partner Johnnie Thomas, and our friends Charles Daniel and Bill Sebast who guarded the Embassy gates that night. How I wish the four of you could have had the chance to reach your late 50's as the rest of us have. We still miss you and love you guys. Say hello up there to the guys for us. Jim
Thursday, December 30, 2004

Bob Shepherd
recctr01@hotmail.com
Good friend
I met Owen shortly after he got in country.We became friends & believe it or not we did have some good times togather.I still think of him often.
Tuesday, March 04, 2003

Saturday, October 25, 2003