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HONORED ON PANEL 25W, LINE 98 OF THE WALL

WILLIAM GARY EGGENBERGER

WALL NAME

WILLIAM G EGGENBERGER

PANEL / LINE

25W/98

DATE OF BIRTH

07/01/1939

CASUALTY PROVINCE

QUANG NGAI

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/13/1969

HOME OF RECORD

LYNDHURST

COUNTY OF RECORD

Bergen County

STATE

NJ

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR WILLIAM GARY EGGENBERGER
POSTED ON 3.28.2016
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SP4 William Gary Eggenberger, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 11.7.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

William is buried at East Ridgelawn Cemetery in Delawanna,NJ. PH
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POSTED ON 3.17.2008
POSTED BY: RON BROCCARDO

REMEMBERING

BILL I REMEMBER THE NIGHT YOU DIED. DOC
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POSTED ON 3.30.2006
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 2.16.2001
POSTED BY: Michael Smentkowski

my friend ringo

I knew william as ringo. We worked together in Maislin Bros. Took karate in Newark. When I was drafted into the army he told me to go Airborne. We thought we would be together and meet up after basic. I did my tour in Vietnam 1967-68. We never met up and he went to Vietnam after I was home. I remember a time when a family member needed blood and he was right there to donate both his time and blood. I never got to see him or say good-bye but will remember him always. I was visiting the wall in NJ and got information about him there. If anyone reads this I would welcome hearing from you.
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