THE WALL OF FACES

Rest in peace with the warriors.

My name is Chad Kraft. I'm a senior at Seneca High School in Seneca, MO. I was faced with an assignment... a challenge, rather. This challenge was to find a veteran who served in Vietnam. I asked the value of this assignment, and got a shocking response. I now see the real value of this assignment. The value isn't the points, though that's how I pass the class... the value is in the sacrifice. The price paid by our veterans. The price paid by Terry Andersen. I know I will never understand the price he paid, but I do appreciate it greatly. For it's men like him, why our country is free.

Terry is buried at Masonic Cemetery, Tipton,MO. BSM-2OLC AM PH

Here, but for the grace of God, go I.
(no relation)

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-laden 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