THE WALL OF FACES

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"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

I am doing a project on Michael in my history class. My father Al Fuentes told me all about him in an interview. I will honor him and how he served.

i remember riding the gg subway going to st.francis prep hs in bkyln with you..you were such a good guy.you gave to all of us the greatest of sacrifice,you forfeited everything for all of us.REST IN HIS GREAT PEACE

Mike,

It's so hard to accept, even after all of these years. I can still see you on the corner of 51st Street when we last spoke. Rest in peace Mike. I will never forget you and the type of man you were.

"An God said who shall we send.I answered I am here,send me."

Isaiah 6:8