EDWARD T COOPER
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HONORED ON PANEL 29W, LINE 8 OF THE WALL

EDWARD THOMAS COOPER

WALL NAME

EDWARD T COOPER

PANEL / LINE

29W/8

DATE OF BIRTH

03/08/1950

CASUALTY PROVINCE

KONTUM

DATE OF CASUALTY

03/11/1969

HOME OF RECORD

CEDAR RAPIDS

COUNTY OF RECORD

Linn County

STATE

IA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

PFC

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR EDWARD THOMAS COOPER
POSTED ON 1.9.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson

Never Forgotten

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

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POSTED ON 4.4.2005
POSTED BY: Kelly Smith

Bronze Star

Eddie died 3 days after turning 19. Awarded the bronze star for heroism against an armed hostile force.
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