05 Dec 2003 We were boyhood friends. Freddie went in the service before I did, yet we wound up in the same unit, just a few months apart. I didn't know he had been killed in action until I returned to "the world" and just couldn't believe what I was reading. I finally got to the "Wall" in DC, and saw his name etched in that beautiful black granite, and just wept. He, along with Buddy Littlehales, Bob Turnbull, John Curtin, all from the same high school, Sparta H. S., I still weep for their loss. You never forget friends, and we were all friends. Not forgetting all those who also gave all they could give. Freddie, I miss you every day of my life, and some day we will see each other at the eagle's nest in the sky. The "brotherhood of eagles" will never forget you, nor will I. Rest easy, my friend. "Ten hut, taps!"

 

Notes from The Virtual Wall Charlie Company, 1/501st Infantry, lost five men on 6 April 1968: SGT Benito B. Rodriguez, Freedom, CA SP4 Frederick E. Love, Andover, NJ PFC Daniel A. Rocha, Denver, CO PFC James R. Sanford, Xenia, OH PFC Lee A. Watson, Smithfield, NC The three other men named above are PFC Roy C. Littlehales, A Co, 3/39th Infantry, 9th Inf Div (02/16/1967) 1Lt Robert C. Turnbull, C Co, 2/18th Infantry, 1st Inf Div (02/07/1968) SP4 John Curtin, Jr, D Co, 2/27th Infantry, 25th Inf Div (08/26/1968) "Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, but in simple obedience to duty, as they understood it." Confederate Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery

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