THE WALL OF FACES

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-laden 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 2/502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne STRIKE FORCE Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

Dear Samuel,
For the Gridley High School Posting Project, I would like to take the time to thank you for all of your dedication to our country during the war. Leaving all your belongings and family behind to fight in a war, had to be a hard decision. It was a decision though, that was greatly appreciated. If it wasn’t for people like you, were would our country be today? Thank you for all your sacrifices you had for this country. You will always be remembered as a hero.

Thank you,
Ashley Kiefer

Samuel Asher was the CO of the LRRPs/RANGERs of the 1st Bgd, 4th Inf Div. At An Khe RVN. I understand after he left us He was KIA with a line unit in April1970. He was a Good Officer and well liked.