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HONORED ON PANEL 60E, LINE 8 OF THE WALL
JON ALLEN BAKER
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JON A BAKER
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60E/8
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LEFT FOR JON ALLEN BAKER
POSTED ON 7.5.2013
POSTED BY: New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation
Submitted by the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation, Holmdel, NJ
If you have any additional information about this hero or are a relative, please contact the Foundation at [email protected] or 1-800-648-8387.
POSTED ON 5.1.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Jon is buried at Woodbine Cemetery in Oceanport, NJ. PH
POSTED ON 4.5.2006
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
POSTED ON 3.13.2002
POSTED BY: Allacin Morimizu, J.A.'s niece
My Uncle J.A.
My Uncle J.A. was the youngest of five children born to Robert and Ellen Baker: Luellyn (Lynn), Robert, Jr.(Bob or Bud); Pamela (Pam); Walter (Walt); and Jon Allen (J.A.). I am one of Luellyn's daughters. My Uncle J.A. visited my family when he was in the service. I last saw him when I was about six, and made him a blue "Do Not Disturb" sign for the guest room. He was a kind man. I credit his death with getting me to think about eternal things and looking for answers in the Bible.