HONORED ON PANEL 11E, LINE 71 OF THE WALL
JAMES EDWARDS GARDNER
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JAMES E GARDNER
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POSTED ON 9.1.2012
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
James is buried at Hope Cemetery, Kala,azoo County, MI. PH
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POSTED ON 9.27.2011
POSTED BY: Lisa Lark
Exploding Mine Kills Local Man Lt. James Gardner Dies In Viet Nam
Kalamazoo Gazette 10161966
Army First LT. James E. Gardner, 25, of Texas Township, was killed Thursday in Viet Nam when the vehicle he was riding in struck a land mine, the Army reported today.
Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Gardner, 5181 Texas Drive, was a graduate of Portage Central High School and Western Michigan University.
Gardner was attached to Company B which is part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He had been in Viet Nam since February 25 and was scheduled to leave the country early next year.
A 1959 Graduate of Portage Central High School, Gardner earned his bachelor's degree from Western Michigan University in 1963. He received his master's from WMU in 1965.
Gardner was commissioned through the Army Reserved Officer Training Corps program at WMU. He had volunteered to go to Viet Nam after spending seven months in Korea, his parents said.
Surviving in addition to his parents is a brother, Daniel, at home.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Truesdale South Chapel.
THE KALAMAZOO COUNTY VIETNAM WALL
Army First LT. James E. Gardner, 25, of Texas Township, was killed Thursday in Viet Nam when the vehicle he was riding in struck a land mine, the Army reported today.
Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Gardner, 5181 Texas Drive, was a graduate of Portage Central High School and Western Michigan University.
Gardner was attached to Company B which is part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He had been in Viet Nam since February 25 and was scheduled to leave the country early next year.
A 1959 Graduate of Portage Central High School, Gardner earned his bachelor's degree from Western Michigan University in 1963. He received his master's from WMU in 1965.
Gardner was commissioned through the Army Reserved Officer Training Corps program at WMU. He had volunteered to go to Viet Nam after spending seven months in Korea, his parents said.
Surviving in addition to his parents is a brother, Daniel, at home.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Truesdale South Chapel.
THE KALAMAZOO COUNTY VIETNAM WALL
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POSTED ON 9.12.2006
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 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
"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
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