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HONORED ON PANEL 45E, LINE 17 OF THE WALL
CHARLES CARL ASSELTA
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CHARLES C ASSELTA
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LEFT FOR CHARLES CARL ASSELTA
POSTED ON 12.5.2005
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 hero’s 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 heros 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 hero’s 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 heros 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 11.14.2002
POSTED BY: Robert Greer
Chickie was awarded the Air Medal and Bronze Star
First Lt. Carl Charles “Chick” Asselta was serving as the officer in charge of Northern Defense of the American position at French Port 12 miles southeast of Saigon when he was killed in action on March 18, 1968.
He was the son of Carl and Cathryn Asselta of 250 Highland Ave. He enlisted in the Army in March of 1966. First Lt. Asselta was posthumously awarded the Air Medal and the Bronze Star Medal. He actively participated in more than 25 aerial missions over the hostile territory in support of counter-insurgency operations.
He enlisted as a private and completed basic training at Fort Dix. He was transferred to officer candidate school in Fort Sill Oklahoma. He served in Texas and at the survival school in the Panama Canal Zone prior to his arrival in Vietnam in January 1968. He was also the recipient of the Purple Heart, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, National Order of Vietnam (Fifth Class) Medal, and the Gallantry Cross with Palm.
... from the booklet printed for the dedication of the Vineland, New Jersey Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, Memorial Day, May 30, 1988