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November 18, 2002
My name is Janice KING Pattillo. Harold Wayne King is my First Cousin. Our fathers were brothers.
I can not believe after all these years I have stumbled on this site and found out what happened to my
cousin. This is like a gift from God - all thes years and now I know.
It has always broken my heart that Wayne died so young and for nothing. Old men send young men to die.
Wayne is buried on a hillside in a country church cemetery in his beloved Virginia by his little sister and
parents, his grand parents and uncles and aunts and cousins.
I still see that young teenager driving past my childhood home in Virginia, waving and that beautiful shy
smile.
God Bless his soul and the other brave soldiers who died that day.
So far from home and thinking of their loved ones.
How my heart breaks for Wayne and all that could have been - a wedding, children and grandchildren - dreams
that died in a rice paddy - so far from the beautiful hills of Virginia. A young handsome cousin who felt he would never come home walks up the steps and boards his plane - never looking back - on his journey
to eternity --- Wayne, I love you and tears fall for you as you remain always young and we left behind, now graying.
"IN REMEMBERING, WE KEEP WHAT IS BEST AS TREASURES FOREVER" -
YOU WERE THE BEST, MY DEAR COUSIN.
THANK YOU FOR THIS SITE
GOD BLESS YOU FOR NOT FORGETTING
and creating this site that has shown light for Wayne's family on the details of his death.
Another young man on visits to the hills of Virginia throughout his twenty-four years, visting the cemetery
learned of a cousin he never knew. My son, Michael Pattillo, also lies in a cemetery now. And, Michael and Wayne are together for eternity. Wayne's elderly Mother joined Wayne in 2002, for those who knew Wayne.
From Wayne's first cousin,
Janice KING Pattillo
1158 Woodland Circle, Lawrenceville, Ga. 30043
janice_pattillo@yahoo.com
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