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 and patriots 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

We shall not forget the sacrifice that was made on this day, so many years ago. It is our duty to always remember and pray for our lost soldiers. RIP

I will make sure americans remember your sacrifice.I was seriously wounded on 9-27-67.I know it's my duty to never allow america to forget! DanFinn 25th Inf Div.

I knew Pat for 4 years and we grew to be good friends. Most of our time was spent as lifeguards at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. We had some great times and I remember the times that we spent talking about the Viet Nam war and our responsibility to our country. Pat and his father had a long discussion about the subject and Pat made the decision to delay his pursuit of a law degree and he joined the Corps. I still think of him and I know that he served his country well.