Though you are gone you will never be forgotten! You and men like you, are the reason we are free today! I just wanted to say THANK YOU for the sacrifices that you made! I hold you and those like you in the highest regard and you deserve nothing less! I love you all, you were and always will be HEROES to me! I promise never to take for granted the freedoms I have, which you paid the ultimate price for! Happy Birthday! Let no man be forgotten…I WILL REMEMBER YOU!!!
Gratefully yours,Jenn
May 5, 2007
Garnet Jenkins Grand Junction Co. Never Forgotten In Remembrance of this Young Naval Hero, with a Multitude of Thanks for his Courage, Service and Dedication to our Country and for Freedom. Rest well HN Emil John Wurtz and know that you will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. I am the sister of such a young hero, who made the Supreme Sacrifice in Vietnam 1967..... "And God Shall Wipe Away Every Tear From Their Eyes, There Shall Be No More Death, Nor Sorrow, Nor Crying, There Shall Be No More Pain. For The Former Things Have Passed Away." Revelations 21:4
May 5, 2007
Jim Fisher Jim_Fisher@Cargill.com Friend 8914 Vickors Crossing Brooklyn Park,MN. 55443 USA Emil and I first met while we were both stationed at the Naval Air Station at Great Lakes, IL. We were both corpsman and were housed in the same barracks. We both knew that we would be going to Viet Nam, but Emil got his orders several month's before I did. On his last night at Great Lakes there was a snow storm and the temperature was very cold. He was pretty nervous and couldn't sleep, so we decided to walk down to North Chicago and have a bowl of soup at the Town Talk Cafe. We sat there and talked for a long time, we trudged back through the snow and talked awhile longer at the barracks and finally got to bed very late in the morning. Emil had told me that he knew he would not come back from Viet Nam alive. I told him he was nuts and that he certainly would make it back. He was emphatic and said he didn't know what it was, but he just knew he wouldn't. He left the next morning and I never saw Emil again. He was sent to Khe Sahn. A couple of month's later we got the word that he had been killed there. His funeral was near his home on the north side of Chicago and his friends, including myself were pall bearers at his funeral. Seemed ironic that he knew he wasn't coming back alive, and he was right. Have talked to several others who knew those that had said the same thing and were right. Emil was a close friend. There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for anyone. He was a very good friend and person and his loss has been a loss for everyone. I miss his friendship. Jim Fisher Sunday, March 21, 1999
I'm Anonymous Just a note to thank YOU for YOUR sacrifice to a great nation. Saturday, November 10, 2001
Manuel Pino Jr Bco 2/8th 1st Cav 68-69 mpjr54@msn.com Fellow Medic To our Fallen Corpsman in arms, may the seas be calm and the winds be fair. Sunday, October 09, 2005
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