Smith, Gerald Lee
Brick Inscription:

GERALD L. SMITH
KIA OCTOBER 7 1951
 

Brick Location

Walk North-East Expansion


 

   Honored by:

 LTC Herman H. Mc Lawhorn (Retired)
Army of the United States
 Korean War Veteran
and
The Walk of Honor

 
 



     

2nd Infantry Division



15th Field Artillery Battalion





 

Sergeant Gerald Lee Smith was born in Kinston North Carolina in 1932. He joined the North Carolina National Guard. He was called to active duty  during the Korean War and assigned to Battery C, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. Sergeant, while serving as a forward observer, was Killed in Action during the fighting on Heart Break Ridge hill 867 in North Korea on October 7, 1951. He interred in Westveiw Cemetery, Kinston, North Carolina. The poem pictured below was written by Sergeant Smith. Any one of us who served in combat can relate to poem. It reads.

IN MEMORY OF BUDDY, "NO FAME I CRAVE BEFORE MY GOD, A SIMPLE GOAL I KEEP, I HOPE JUST ONCE BEFORE I DIE, TO GET SUFFICIENT SLEEP."  BY GERALD L. SMITH.