The Wall of Faces
RONALD LEE ELZA
is honored on Panel 21E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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REMEMBRANCES
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We Remember
Posted on 11/25/09 - by Robert Sage rsage@austin.rr.comRon is buried at Clarendon Hills on Cass St in Westmont, IL -
A Musketeer
Posted on 5/19/09 - by Bud Domagata budltc@gmail.comRon,
You were a pal and one of the best of the hooligans at Downers Grove HS.
Miss ya buddy,
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NEVER FORGOTTEN
Posted on 4/26/06 - by Bill Nelson grite@yahoo.comFOREVER REMEMBEREDMORE
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
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Ron Elza
Posted on 5/26/04 - by Corky, Dracula 29I remember the day when we started out on the patrol. The seven of us. I remember the single shot that took your life and the pain as we carried you back to the NDP. At times I wondered why it was you and not one of us. You did not die in vain and you have always been in my heart. Thanks for your service. I will see you again one day. Thanks for paving the way.MORE -
VALOR. American men & women have died in wars ... WE REMEMBER!
Posted on 4/2/03 - by Jim StepanekMORE
DuPage County, Illinois "Wall of Fallen Heroes"
The Wall of Faces
Brought to you by the organization that built The Wall, the Vietnam Veterans Virtual Memorial Wall is dedicated to honoring, remembering and sharing the legacies of all those who died in the Vietnam War. Here you can go beyond the names on The Wall to see the faces, share the stories and read the remembrances posted by friends, neighbors, classmates and family members.
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RONALD L ELZA
5/27/1947 - 6/12/1967
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the education center at the wall
VVMF is completing the mission of preserving the legacy of our fallen heroes by building an education center to tell the stories of the names on The Wall.