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HONORED ON PANEL 10W, LINE 32 OF THE WALL
RICHARD GILL DESILLIER
WALL NAME
RICHARD G DESILLIER
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10W/32
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR RICHARD GILL DESILLIER
POSTED ON 4.3.2006
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
POSTED ON 10.28.2005
POSTED BY: Hugo A. Simonelli Pst #3263 (VFW)
Put a Face with a Name
Mystic, Groton
Service: Specialist 4, U.S. Army; killed in action 13 May 1970, in Cambodia. Richard was serving with the Fifth Battalion, 199th Light Infantry Brigade. He was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart, posthumously.
Personal: He was born 1 July 1947, at New London, CT. He graduated from Robert E. Fitch Senior High School, in 1965, and attended the University of Connecticut. He is buried in the St. Sebastin's Cemetery, Westerly, RI. Richard's name is memorialized on a monument, in a park, on Main Street, in the village of Old Mystic, Stonington, CT.
Parents: Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Desillier of Mystic, Groton, CT
Wife: Elene Murphy Desillier of Pawcatuck, Stonington, CT
POSTED ON 4.30.2004
POSTED BY: Kristin Butikofer
Hero
Hello, my name is Kristin Butikofer and I attend Gridley High School in Gridley, Illinois. For my World History class, I was recently assigned to make remembrances for the Gridley High School Posting Project for the soldiers that lost their lives in the Vietnam War. You left many things behind, but the most important thing you left behind was your life. I know I will never have to go through all the pain and suffering you went through, but if you hadn't done what you did for our country, things would be much different. I respect you greatly. You will never be forgotten and you will always be remembered as a hero. Thank you so much and God bless.