THE WALL OF FACES

Dear CPL Robert Oliver Garant, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

Robert is buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro,TN. PH-GS

Just a note to let your family know that your old friends still think of you on special days like today.
May God bless you and your family.

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

I can remember a happier time on a cool autumn Saturday with burning leaves in the air and football on our minds. The Garant family was known for football players and Butch was no exception. Those memories will remain fozen in time for those of us who look back fondly to simpler and sometimes happier times.

For three years, I walked the same halls at Murfreesboro Central High School with Butch Garant and hundreds of others who were too innocent to contemplate the future dangers that awaited those who bravely served our country during that awful war. I was lucky to have been assigned to Thailand in June 1966, barely a month before Butch was taken from us.

God bless you Butch Garant. I will always remember that you bravely served so that others may live free. Thank you for your supreme sacrfice. You are gone, but you will never be forgotten.