THE WALL OF FACES

Michael is buried at Assumption Cemetery in Glenwood,IL. BSMOLC PH

We were not suppose to be there. We went to help Marines ambushed in a hill. Michael was walking point I had the LT radio. We hit booby traps. 4 guys wonded, one killed. Michael was my bunker buddy. We use to tease each other about our cultures (Italian & Puertorican) in a good way.He was my friend and "partner in crime" in a good sense. I always miss him. I always wanted to show his family a picture I took crossing a rice paddy but I never gathered enough courage to do it. I still remember that day, the day I lost my friend.

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

"An God said who shall we send.I answered I am here,send me."

Isaiah 6:8