THE WALL OF FACES

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

James is buried at Beaufort Nat Cem,Beaufort,SC.

JAMES GAINES JR, you were 19 when you joined the Armed Forces. You died two years later fighting for what you believed in. I will never forget; you are a hero. R.I.P.

Truly yours,

Natnael Shiferaw

Mr. Gaines was a great man. He served our country for one year. He persished at the age of 20 and never saw his 21st birthday. May God Bless Him and Rest In Peace.


Sincerely,
Tyana Murray

James you were only 20 when you died.You died while protecting our country. For that I respect you. I can never be brave enough to join the army. I can't imagine how your family felt when you died. Remember, now you're in the army of the Lord.

By:
Shawn Bartee