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HONORED ON PANEL 13E, LINE 125 OF THE WALL
ROBERT WILLIAM GREEN
WALL NAME
ROBERT W GREEN
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13E/125
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR ROBERT WILLIAM GREEN
POSTED ON 10.30.2001
POSTED BY: LINDA GREEN DEFREES
OUR BROTHER ROBERT
SEPTEMBER 18,1965 HE MARRIED SHIRLEY HOCKHALTER. THEIR SON ROBERT W. JR. WAS SIX WEEKS OLD WHEN HIS FATHER WAS SENT TO VIET NAM IN THE FALL OF 1966. AS A NAVY HOSPITALMAN 4-C HE WAS PART OF A CONTINGENT ATTACHED TO THE MARINE CORPS. HE WAS TAKING CARE OF MARINE CORPS WOUNDED ON THE BATTLEFIELD WHEN HE HIMSELF WAS INJURED JAN. 1, 1967. THIS DURING ONE OF THE ALMOST 200 CLASHES THAT MARRED THE NEW YEAR'S TRUCE IN VIET NAM. HE DIED EIGHT DAYS LATER.
THOUGH ROBERT LIVED ONLY 20 YEARS, HE MADE AN IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HE HAD AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF LIFE AND A FANTASTIC SENSE OF HUMOR.
WE HAVE ALL MISSED HAVING HIM SHARE THE REST OF OUR LIVES, BUT AS LONG AS WE LIVE, SO WILL HIS MEMORY.
WE LOVE AND MISS OUR BROTHER.
TED GREEN
LINDA GREEN DEFREES
VIVIAN GREEN
PENY GILSON
POSTED ON 10.27.1999
POSTED BY: John Bruneel
"I'm the One Called Doc..."
Rest in Peace "Doc"
John Bruneel, HMCM USN (Ret)
"I'm the One Called "Doc…"
I shall not walk in your footsteps,
but I will walk by your side.
I shall not walk in your image,
I've earned my own title of pride.
We've answered the call together,
on sea and foreign land.
When the cry for help was given,
I've been there right at hand.
Whether I am on the ocean
or in the jungle wearing greens,
Giving aid to my fellow man,
be it Sailors or Marines.
So the next time you see a corpsman
and you thing of calling him "squid",
Think of the job he's doing
as those before him did.
And if you ever have to go out there
and you life is on the block,
Look at the one right next to you…
I'm the one called "Doc".
Harry D. Penny, Jr. HMC(AC)USN
Copyright 1975
"Permission to reprint granted
by the author/copyright owner".
(Permission for poem & graphic)
John Bruneel, HMCM USN (Ret)
"I'm the One Called "Doc…"
I shall not walk in your footsteps,
but I will walk by your side.
I shall not walk in your image,
I've earned my own title of pride.
We've answered the call together,
on sea and foreign land.
When the cry for help was given,
I've been there right at hand.
Whether I am on the ocean
or in the jungle wearing greens,
Giving aid to my fellow man,
be it Sailors or Marines.
So the next time you see a corpsman
and you thing of calling him "squid",
Think of the job he's doing
as those before him did.
And if you ever have to go out there
and you life is on the block,
Look at the one right next to you…
I'm the one called "Doc".
Harry D. Penny, Jr. HMC(AC)USN
Copyright 1975
"Permission to reprint granted
by the author/copyright owner".
(Permission for poem & graphic)