Steven is buried at Peace Lutheran Cemetery, Steelville, IL. PH

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 hero’s 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 heros 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

My name is Sarah and I am a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley Illinois. I am doing an assignment for one of my calluses, posting remembrances for those that lost their lives in the Vietnam War. I do not know you personally but I know what you did for our country. You helped mold it into what it is today by devoting your life to it. You set aside your family and friends to defend our country. You set an example for the young men and women that are now leaving their loved ones to protect and serve America. Thank you for your commitments and you courage. It will never be forgotten. You will always be considered as a hero. Thank again for everything. Sarah