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HONORED ON PANEL 25E, LINE 96 OF THE WALL
ROBERT WILLIAM COTTENIER
WALL NAME
ROBERT W COTTENIER
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25E/96
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LEFT FOR ROBERT WILLIAM COTTENIER
POSTED ON 1.30.2013
POSTED BY: Michigan Call for Photos Project
Always remembered
Photo from the 1966 Warwick Veterans Memorial High School yearbook, courtesy of Alan Von Warwick.
POSTED ON 10.22.2006
POSTED BY: Ben Sienko
Thank You Robert
Lance Cpl. Robert William Cottenier was born on September 18, 1946 to Mildred and Marcel Cottenier. He lived in Warwick, RI and graduated from Warwick Veterans Memorial High School in 1966. Shortly thereafter Robert joined the Marines. On September 4, 1967, Robert was KIA in the Quang Nam province in Vietnam while engaging the enemy. He was only 21 years old. Robert can be found on panel 25E, Row 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. He is buried at Pocasset Cemetery in Cranston, RI. He will always live on through his friends and family. Thank You Robert for your service and ultimate sacrifice for our country. If anyone has additional information regarding Robert, your help would be greatly appreciated. Learning as much about America’s fallen heroes as is possible is truly important. Please contribute by contacting Ben Sienko via email, [email protected], or telephone, 1-401-738-0084.
POSTED ON 8.9.2006
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