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HONORED ON PANEL 26W, LINE 96 OF THE WALL
FRANKLIN G ATKINSON JR
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FRANKLIN G ATKINSON JR
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POSTED ON 12.29.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Franklin is buried at Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery, Hurffville, Glouchester County,NJ.
POSTED ON 8.7.2009
POSTED BY: Steven Ingle
I served with you
You were a great friend and I still miss you even 40 years later. I'll never forget you...NEVER!
POSTED ON 2.28.2008
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
The Philadelphia Inquirer - May 7, 1969
Protecting Vital Road
N.J. SOLDIER IS KILLED IN ACTION NEAR SAIGON
Sp/4 Franklin G. Atkinson Jr., 21, son of the Washington Township, N.J., tax collector and treasurer, was killed last week in Vietnam, the Department announced Tuesday.
Specialist Atkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin G. Atkinson Sr., of Egg Harbor rd., Hurffville, Gloucester County, was killed while driving a personnel carrier on Highway 13 near Saigon.
He was assigned to Company A, 14th Mechanized Infantry of the 1st Army Division, to protect the road leading to Saigon.
A graduate of Washington Township High School, he managed the Flagg Brothers Shoe Store at 12th and Market sts. in Philadelphia before being drafted into the Army in November 1967. He was sent to Vietnam last November.
According to his father, Specialist Atkinson wrote in his letters that people are not aware of what is going on in Vietnam. "It's worse than they think," he wrote. "You secure a village, move on to the next only to find the Vietcong are back in the same village."
He is also survived by a sister, Gill, and a younger brother, Bruce.
N.J. SOLDIER IS KILLED IN ACTION NEAR SAIGON
Sp/4 Franklin G. Atkinson Jr., 21, son of the Washington Township, N.J., tax collector and treasurer, was killed last week in Vietnam, the Department announced Tuesday.
Specialist Atkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin G. Atkinson Sr., of Egg Harbor rd., Hurffville, Gloucester County, was killed while driving a personnel carrier on Highway 13 near Saigon.
He was assigned to Company A, 14th Mechanized Infantry of the 1st Army Division, to protect the road leading to Saigon.
A graduate of Washington Township High School, he managed the Flagg Brothers Shoe Store at 12th and Market sts. in Philadelphia before being drafted into the Army in November 1967. He was sent to Vietnam last November.
According to his father, Specialist Atkinson wrote in his letters that people are not aware of what is going on in Vietnam. "It's worse than they think," he wrote. "You secure a village, move on to the next only to find the Vietcong are back in the same village."
He is also survived by a sister, Gill, and a younger brother, Bruce.
POSTED ON 8.25.2007
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POSTED ON 3.9.2006
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