JOHN B APPLETON
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HONORED ON PANEL 18E, LINE 117 OF THE WALL

JOHN BURDETTE APPLETON

WALL NAME

JOHN B APPLETON

PANEL / LINE

18E/117

DATE OF BIRTH

01/08/1947

CASUALTY PROVINCE

QUANG TRI

DATE OF CASUALTY

04/30/1967

HOME OF RECORD

LOUISVILLE

STATE

KY

BRANCH OF SERVICE

MARINE CORPS

RANK

LCPL

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JOHN BURDETTE APPLETON
POSTED ON 2.14.2011

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Rest in peace with the warriors.
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POSTED ON 3.6.2006
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
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POSTED ON 11.13.2004
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

John is buried at Zachary Taylor Nat Cem.
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POSTED ON 7.7.2004
POSTED BY: Mike Oyler

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POSTED ON 10.29.2003
POSTED BY: Joel Campbell

Thank You

Dear Sir,
I am a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, IL and my Consumer Economics class is posting remembrances for courageous soldiers like you who perished during the Vietnam War. Thank you for your gift of liberty to our country. You are the reason the United States is the great nation that it is today. You will never be forgotten.

Gratefully,
Joel Campbell
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