10 Oct 1998 I have worn the bracelet with "my man's" name on it since 1979. Brenda ranger4@tds.net

 

2 Mar 2005 Dear Tom, I still remember you. Semper Fi and God Bless, Arlene and Family Arlene Marine Valdosta, Ga. georgianana10@yahoo.com

 

01 May 2006 I just wanted to let you know that I too have been wearing a POW bracelet for SSgt Thomas E. Douglas, USMC 22 NOV 65 SVN, which my husband brought home to me from the Veterans Hospital which he volunteers at in Northport, N.Y. many, many years ago. I have never taken it off. One day we will all go again to the D.C. Memorial and I'll leave a little prayer there for him. God Bless and Best Regards to all family and loved ones left behind, Ann L. Kessinger 191 Livingston Avenue Babylon, N.Y. 11702 631 587-8015 annielk52@yahoo.com

 

10 Jul 2006 I have been wearing Staff Sergeant Douglas's bracelet for a month and a half now. I look at it and wonder, did he have a family? What was he like? He would have been only slightly younger than my grandfather, but I think of him more like my brother (who is in the USMC ROTC, training to be a career officer). Thomas, you are loved and never forgotten. Meredith Holt, Alabama sweetestsiren@gmail.com

 

02 Dec 2006 I've just found this site, but I've had a bracelet with Thomas Douglas' name on it for many years. I haven't worn it for some time, but I still have it in my jewelry box, and I will never part with it. I never knew Tom Douglas but his memory lives with me nonetheless. We will never forget. Sue Walker E-mail address is not available.

 

17 Jan 2007 I have worn a bracelet with SSgt Thomas E Douglas' name on it for 15 years. I got it on a trip to visit the Wall when I was in 8th grade. I haven't taken it off since, and I won't until he comes home. E-mail address is not available.

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall The Marine Air Group 36 (MAG-36) Command Chronology for November 1965 contains the following entry: "22 November 1965 - An emergency lift was made by HMM-362 to relieve the ARVN outpost at THACH TRU, south of Quang Ngai. The mission was successfully completed in very poor weather conditions which apparently caused the loss of YL-36, last seen in IFR conditions in a climbing turn at night over the sea, northeast of Quang Ngai. To date no sign of the aircraft or crew has been found, and it is assumed that it crashed at sea with the loss of all hands: 1stLt F VISCONTI, 1stLt R A MILLER, Cpl V J PIRKER and Cpl J E DOUGLAS." "YL-36" was the side number for UH-34D Bureau Number 147180. All four crewmen were carried as Missing in Action, and promoted while in that status, until the Secretary of the Navy approved Presumptive Findings of Death for them on the dates indicated below: Major Francis E. Visconti, Syracuse, NY, pilot (10/15/1973) Major Richard A. Miller, New York, NY, copilot (01/21/1975) GySgt Victor J. Pirker, Trout Creek, MT, gunner (01/31/1974) SSgt Thomas E. Douglas, Northwest Warren, OH, crew chief (12/21/1977) Further information is available on the USMC Combat Helicopter Association site

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