CARL J ANDRUS
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HONORED ON PANEL 33W, LINE 18 OF THE WALL

CARL JOSEPH ANDRUS

WALL NAME

CARL J ANDRUS

PANEL / LINE

33W/18

DATE OF BIRTH

02/17/1947

CASUALTY PROVINCE

TAY NINH

DATE OF CASUALTY

01/30/1969

HOME OF RECORD

DETROIT

COUNTY OF RECORD

Wayne County

STATE

MI

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

PFC

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR CARL JOSEPH ANDRUS
POSTED ON 1.30.2014
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear PFC Carl Joseph Andrus, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 4.30.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Carl is buried at Mt Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, MI. BSM/OLC AM PH
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POSTED ON 1.30.2006
ONE OF MICHIGAN'S FALLEN SONS

We remember CARL JOSEPH ANDRUS and the ultimate sacrifice he made. Rest in peace.
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POSTED ON 10.21.2005
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 heros 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 heros 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 5.6.2002
POSTED BY: David V. Burns

Dear Carl

Dear Carl, I learned of your death upon my return from Vietnam in early February, 1970.
A mutual friend of ours and your highschool classmate Phyllis Kinsler, wept bitterly over your passing and I think about you from time to time because of that.
I'm writing a book about the war and I'm researching the Wall on the internet.
I ran across your name and notice that nobody posted a rememberance for you.
That's a shame my friend and I'm doing something about it.
Rest in peace.
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