THE WALL OF FACES

Rest in peace with the warriors.

1ST LT Peter Francis Donnell was a distinguished graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point in the class of 1966. He met his untimely death at the young age of just 25 and was posthumously awarded the purple heart medal.

Pete was in the Class of '59 at Orleans American High School in France. He was the President of our Student Council. We will always remember him, especially at our OHS reunions of Army Brats.

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

Peter is buried at Arlington Nat Cem.