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HONORED ON PANEL 5W, LINE 45 OF THE WALL
JOSEPH WILLIAM GAA JR
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JOSEPH W GAA JR
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LEFT FOR JOSEPH WILLIAM GAA JR
POSTED ON 11.12.2012
POSTED BY: Shellie (Allen) Naungayan
Hali'a Aloha
Aloha e Joe! You are still my hero after all these years! We still remember you with love and aloha!
POSTED ON 1.20.2006
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 5.22.2005
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Joseph is buried at Christ Church Episcopal, Kealakekus, HI.
POSTED ON 2.12.2005
POSTED BY: Charlie Cabilin
Aloha, Joe
After over 30 years I finally will get to visit the "Wall" this is the Moving Wall and will be in Mesquite,NV this weekend. I will finally get to see your name in person.
Aloha Joe
Charlie Cabilin,MSgt, USAF (Retired)Class of 68, and boyhood friend from Kealakekua.
Aloha Joe
Charlie Cabilin,MSgt, USAF (Retired)Class of 68, and boyhood friend from Kealakekua.