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HONORED ON PANEL 33E, LINE 67 OF THE WALL
FREDDIE DARREL FORD
WALL NAME
FREDDIE D FORD
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33E/67
DATE OF BIRTH
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DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR FREDDIE DARREL FORD
POSTED ON 12.7.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
Freddie Ford
POSTED ON 1.24.2006
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
POSTED ON 3.16.2003
He Died for a lost cause
He might have died for a lost cause but this man must have had more courage thatn any of us here today to face the terrors that Vietnam held for the American troops and die bravely while fighting!!!
POSTED ON 3.5.2003
We Remember
Freddie is buried in Morning Star Baptist Cem,Carter's Valley Rd in Hawkins Co,TN. His stone says Co D,15th Engrs,9th INF DIV, BSM-PH.
POSTED ON 8.30.2001
POSTED BY: Evelyn Fernandez-Baron
commonality
I have noticed that you are the only one (according to the records on this site)who died on 1/7/68 in Dinh Tuong, besides my brother. I wonder if you were together with him. Maybe you had comforted each other prior to dying. May you rest in peace, and God Bless You.