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HONORED ON PANEL 19W, LINE 118 OF THE WALL
RICHARD EDGAR GENEST
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RICHARD E GENEST
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19W/118
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LEFT FOR RICHARD EDGAR GENEST
POSTED ON 10.30.2007
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Richard is buried along with the 4 others from the 3/197 Arty at Mt Calvary Cemetery, Manchester, NH.
POSTED ON 4.7.2006
POSTED BY: Gerald Oleson
Peace to you and yours.
I had just graduated from Officer Candidate School in Concord, NH and was teaching school at Bridgton Academy in North Bridgton, Maine, when I heard the news of Sgt Genest's death and that of several other soldiers.
I wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs. Genest, and I remember her courage and strength on the day of the funeral.
I graduated as a Second Lt from OCS in July, 1969, and resigned my commission as a conscience objector the next year.
My best wishes to the Genest family. G. Oleson
I wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs. Genest, and I remember her courage and strength on the day of the funeral.
I graduated as a Second Lt from OCS in July, 1969, and resigned my commission as a conscience objector the next year.
My best wishes to the Genest family. G. Oleson
POSTED ON 10.16.2002
POSTED BY: Richard Genest
Almost Back
"Anyone who wishes to know what those years were really like, cleansed of the glorifying rhetoric or political cant, will find it,searingly, in these pages."This is a quote from Robert MacNeil about the book "Almost Back"- a book based on letters my father,Richard Genest, sent my mother everyday the entire year he was in Vietnam. Tragically he was killed his last day.
POSTED ON 4.25.2000
POSTED BY: Daniel R. Mahon
By Honor Bound and Ghosts Possessed
The Wall, Panel 19 West, Lines 116-123
August 26, 1999
30th Anniversary
To Kathleen
Midshipman, USN
The average age of those who served in Vietnam was 19. There will always be a place reserved in my memory for those 38 of my brothers who gave their lives in the line of duty on August 26th, 1969, my own nineteenth birthday. And it is not without regret that I hold special remembrance of my five younger brothers, Don Brown, USA, Jimmie Morris, USMC, Joseph Pinto, USMC, James Shipman, USMC, and Glenn Truex, USMC, who I will always believe went in my place.
There is a place
Not far from here
Where spirits walk
And heroes live
And honor still resides.
It is a wall
With names inscribed
Of those who served
When they were asked...
The brothers of my youth.
I go there still
To walk and think
About my life,
And what I've done since
And things that might have been.
There is a debt
I can't repay
Too many lives were spent.
And one man's life cannot suffice
To make their deaths worthwhile.
But there is hope
In the memory
Of those we leave behind
Who know the price that freedom brings
Who can carry on in kind.
I send you now
To touch a name
So the vision can be passed
Remember there is honor still
It is for you to see it lasts.
They are not dead
And have a wish
As all old soldiers do
The reflection you see before you now
Is their wish to live in you.
Dad
August 26, 1999
30th Anniversary
To Kathleen
Midshipman, USN
The average age of those who served in Vietnam was 19. There will always be a place reserved in my memory for those 38 of my brothers who gave their lives in the line of duty on August 26th, 1969, my own nineteenth birthday. And it is not without regret that I hold special remembrance of my five younger brothers, Don Brown, USA, Jimmie Morris, USMC, Joseph Pinto, USMC, James Shipman, USMC, and Glenn Truex, USMC, who I will always believe went in my place.
There is a place
Not far from here
Where spirits walk
And heroes live
And honor still resides.
It is a wall
With names inscribed
Of those who served
When they were asked...
The brothers of my youth.
I go there still
To walk and think
About my life,
And what I've done since
And things that might have been.
There is a debt
I can't repay
Too many lives were spent.
And one man's life cannot suffice
To make their deaths worthwhile.
But there is hope
In the memory
Of those we leave behind
Who know the price that freedom brings
Who can carry on in kind.
I send you now
To touch a name
So the vision can be passed
Remember there is honor still
It is for you to see it lasts.
They are not dead
And have a wish
As all old soldiers do
The reflection you see before you now
Is their wish to live in you.
Dad