JAMES E DEESE JR
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HONORED ON PANEL 41E, LINE 37 OF THE WALL

JAMES EDWARD DEESE JR

WALL NAME

JAMES E DEESE JR

PANEL / LINE

41E/37

DATE OF BIRTH

09/17/1947

CASUALTY PROVINCE

THUA THIEN

DATE OF CASUALTY

02/26/1968

HOME OF RECORD

HICKORY

COUNTY OF RECORD

Catawba County

STATE

NC

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

CPL

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JAMES EDWARD DEESE JR
POSTED ON 5.6.2010

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POSTED ON 1.4.2006
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 hero’s 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 11.26.1999
POSTED BY: Danny James Deese

The Deese Memorial

My name is Danny James Deese and I was wounded in Vietnam, June 1, 1968. In looking at the search database I did not realize there were other Deese's in Vietnam, our name is unusual and I feel as though I have a personal link to you. I know it's been 31 years, but know that I honor and respect you. You gave the ultimate sacrifice. To the family of this brave man, I send my condolences.
Danny James Deese
Lake Waccamaw, NC
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