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HONORED ON PANEL 4W, LINE 45 OF THE WALL
JOE LYNN AVANT
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JOE L AVANT
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4W/45
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LEFT FOR JOE LYNN AVANT
POSTED ON 3.26.2006
POSTED BY: Kathy McCharen
Still missing him
35 years sounds like a long time, but it seems like just yesterday that Joe was a happy, fun-loving, young man, proud to wear his uniform and to serve his country. His family was our nearest neighbors and he and my oldest brother were like true brothers. He was at our home almost as much as his own and even called our mom "Mom". Losing him was like losing a member of our family. My name was shortened to Kat when I was younger by almost everyone, but Joe always called me Kitten. I was 15 at the time of his death and my heart was broken. I will always remember him and always love him.
POSTED ON 10.17.2005
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 heros 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 heros 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 11.13.2003
POSTED BY: Tim Botts
The 59th Land Clearing Company
POSTED ON 2.22.1999
POSTED BY: Dotti Spillman
In loving memory of uncle Joe
Joe L. Avant is an uncle that I never had the opportunity to meet. I was an infant at the time of his death, however I have grown to love and respect him through the memories passed on to me by my father, also a Vietnam Veteran. To anyone who reads this, Joe was a very special brother, son, and uncle and his family misses him dearly. He believed in serving his country for the freedom of others, and our love and memory of him will go on forever.