HONORED ON PANEL 28W, LINE 101 OF THE WALL
ALVIN LEON GAY
WALL NAME
ALVIN L GAY
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28W/101
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
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BRANCH OF SERVICE
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR ALVIN LEON GAY
POSTED ON 11.22.2006
POSTED BY: Jim Carriere
Young..Innocent..
Alvin,
We stood outside the first platoon hootch and cried the day you were killed..I remember your smile the day before, when you showed us your new son's picture. I will never forget you....
We stood outside the first platoon hootch and cried the day you were killed..I remember your smile the day before, when you showed us your new son's picture. I will never forget you....
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POSTED ON 1.26.2006
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
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POSTED ON 4.1.2003
POSTED BY: JEssica Rapp
You will never be forgotten
Solider~
I am a senior at Gridley high school and we are putting on remembrances for lives that were lost in the war. I want to express my gratitude for your service & sacrifice to our great country. You will always be remembered and admired by many. Thank you for everything and God Bless you!
I am a senior at Gridley high school and we are putting on remembrances for lives that were lost in the war. I want to express my gratitude for your service & sacrifice to our great country. You will always be remembered and admired by many. Thank you for everything and God Bless you!
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