THE WALL OF FACES

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

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Frye – 1932

Hello my name is Drew Bunting and I am this remembrance as part of the Gridley High School Posting Project. It is my belief that neither you nor your fellow soldiers should have been involved in this war. Even so you accepted your duty at a moments notice to defend a way of life that was not your own and for this I feel a great sense of pride.

Dear soldier,
My name is Zach Nicolay and this remembrance is part of the Gridley High School Posting Project. I did not know you, but the sacrifice that you and others made helped to mold my future into what it is today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and my God bless your soul.

As part of the Gridley High School Posting Project I wish to thank a hero I never had a chance to thank until now. Thank you for your sacrifice and you will not be forgotten. Again thank you for making the ultimate sacrifice and you will not be forgotten