And thank you again for taking the picture of Plaque #30, with my brother's name, Thomas G. Turner, right there beaming up in the middle.  It is so fitting that it and my brother's spirit now finds a new home in Ocean Pines, MD

I want to tell you (and all the others in Ocean Pines who are responding to me) that we are hearing now from more people today than in 1969 when Tommy died. My father called so many times and got NO response from anyone up the chain of command in the Army, not one person, not even the Lt who sent Tommy and the others (who were all killed) into known North Vietnamese territory. We slowly learned one by one, only as others who fought with Tommy, called my Father, to let him, and us, know the truth of what happened. Later as time went by, others up the chain of command called us, we went to many memorials for Tommy, and others. Now there is a book with more information on what happened, about what my brother and so many others did was published in 1993.  My niece (who lives in Ocean Pines) just found something that was published in the Congressional Record on April 1, 1969, which none of us had seen before.  

It's a different time now, and sometimes even the President calls a family. But for us, for my family, it's responses from people like you and all the others in Ocean Pines who have organized and funded this effort, that matter the most to us, who continue to sincerely weep and mourn and honor the dead who died in all our wars, and on this day especially, for my brother, Sgt Thomas G. Turner. I love to write that out because I know he was promoted after his death.  That sounds so hollow to say, like I'm picking through the ashes of his death, but I have to admit it does continue to mean so much to me.  Sometimes I even think it could be part of the healing that is flooding out from the Wall That Heals.

Many thanks again to you Joe, and to all, Marsha and Joel Rochow, and to everyone in the family of Sgt. Thomas G. Turner