HONORED ON PANEL 5E, LINE 45 OF THE WALL
WILLIE EDWARD DAVIS
WALL NAME
WILLIE E DAVIS
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5E/45
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR WILLIE EDWARD DAVIS
POSTED ON 1.6.2006
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
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POSTED ON 2.18.2004
POSTED BY: Kelsey Zehr
Thank You Willie
Dear Willie,
I am doing a Gridley High School posting project and I am a student from Gridley, Illinois. Our teacher has assigned us to read about those who have given their lives during the Vietnam War and then write remembrances for them, especially for those who might not have a remembrance. Even though I never knew you, I would like to thank you for your bravery and for helping defend our country. You were a hero and will always be. God bless.
Sincerely,
Kelsey Zehr
I am doing a Gridley High School posting project and I am a student from Gridley, Illinois. Our teacher has assigned us to read about those who have given their lives during the Vietnam War and then write remembrances for them, especially for those who might not have a remembrance. Even though I never knew you, I would like to thank you for your bravery and for helping defend our country. You were a hero and will always be. God bless.
Sincerely,
Kelsey Zehr
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