HONORED ON PANEL 24W, LINE 76 OF THE WALL
THOMAS CARMINE DE PALMA
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THOMAS C DE PALMA
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LEFT FOR THOMAS CARMINE DE PALMA
POSTED ON 5.16.2009
POSTED BY: Ed Cardon
Vietnam Vet
Although we never met, I just want you to know you are not forgotten. You gave the ultimate sacrifice, your life for what you believed in. Sleep well my friend, and thank you for protecting the freedoms we have today.
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POSTED ON 12.16.2008
fallen hero
im am doing a fallen hero project for my vietnam course and was wondering if anyone had any type of information to help me whith my project
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POSTED ON 12.16.2008
tribute
i am doing a fallen hero project for my vietnam course at bishop hendricken if anyone has any type of info on this man please let me know thanks.
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POSTED ON 12.6.2008
POSTED BY: Fr. John Carney
A Good Friend
We were classmates at Providence Collge. Tom was a gentle, kind and considerate man. He was very humble.
We drank more than a few beers together and neither of us excelled academically. We loved ROTC and spent most of our time preparing to be commissioned as Army officers. Tom loved to fly and participated in the Army Flight Program. I understand that he was killed while on an airborne recon mission north of Saigon. I believe he was hit by .51 calibre fire and shot down.
I went on to complete a 20 year Army career in the Infantry and am now a Catholic priest.
I loved Tom; may be rest in God's eternal embrace.
We drank more than a few beers together and neither of us excelled academically. We loved ROTC and spent most of our time preparing to be commissioned as Army officers. Tom loved to fly and participated in the Army Flight Program. I understand that he was killed while on an airborne recon mission north of Saigon. I believe he was hit by .51 calibre fire and shot down.
I went on to complete a 20 year Army career in the Infantry and am now a Catholic priest.
I loved Tom; may be rest in God's eternal embrace.
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POSTED ON 4.18.2006
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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