"Life to you was rich and sweet, Yet with a purpose high and brave, You willed it that your comrades keep What you so nobly gave."
— Medal of Honor

January 1, 1970

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Jessie Lee Bailey, 3rd stanza of "Memory of Sergeant Herbert J. Thomas," originally printed in the Richmond Times & the Charleston Gazette, reprinted in Ut Prosim: "Above and Beyond," The Story of Virginia Tech's Medal of Honor Recipients (2001) by Lieutenant Colonel John A. Coulter II, U.S. Army, Ret., Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Development Council, paperback, p. 3.65