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HONORED ON PANEL 48E, LINE 57 OF THE WALL
PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLIN
WALL NAME
PATRICK C COUGHLIN
PANEL / LINE
48E/57
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
RANK
REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLIN
POSTED ON 12.6.2011
POSTED BY: Photo courtesy of Ruth Babcock and VVA Chapter 154
… remembered by Ron and Connie Coughlin
Pfc. Coughlin was stationed at Dong Hoi where he had been for the past six weeks. He took his basic training at Ft. Knox, Ky. Then went to Ft. Polk, La., for more training. He was home recently on 30-day leave before going to Vietnam on March 4. The family learned of his death Friday.
He was a 1967 Beal City High School graduate.
Pfc. Coughlin leaves, besides his mother, four brothers: Joseph, of Harrison; Ronald, William and Thomas and two sisters, Diane and Mary Jane, all at home
Daily Times News , April 13, 1968; Page 1, Column 7-8; April 22, 1968; Page 1, Column 6-7
POSTED ON 10.4.2009
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Patrick is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Mt Pleasant, MI.
POSTED ON 4.9.2008
POSTED BY: Fellow Michigander
Lest We Forget
We remember you PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLIN. May you rest in peace.
POSTED ON 2.1.2006
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
"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