THE WALL OF FACES

I was too small to remember meeting you, Uncle John. But I know your family misses you deeply. Your wife and children...your brothers and sister...all miss you.

Hi, my name is Sarah Van Deventer. My English class is learning about Vietnam and the Wall. I would like to take a moment to thank you for your service to our country. I appreciate your ultimate sacriface and the sacrifices of everyone else on the Wall. Thank you so much. God Bless.

Thank you for everything that you have done for us!!
God Bless
Love always
Britnee

Thanks for everything that you did for us!
God Blass!!
Love always
Britnee

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