HONORED ON PANEL 60E, LINE 11 OF THE WALL
ROBERT RALPH HAMMER
WALL NAME
ROBERT R HAMMER
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60E/11
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LEFT FOR ROBERT RALPH HAMMER
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
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POSTED ON 8.21.2004
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Robert is buried at Golden Gate Nat Cem.
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POSTED ON 11.10.2002
POSTED BY: Lucky(Barnes)Alves
A Friend
Robert was a high school friend. I was 17 when he died,it was one of the saddest days of my life. So many of our Friends were at his funeral Charlie Rice-Sherry Hauck,my best friend Laurie and I. We all grew up too fast that day. Robert was a sweet handsome young man with the heart of a hero.
God Bless You Robert!!!!
God Bless You Robert!!!!
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POSTED ON 4.12.1999
POSTED BY: Susan Edens
We were so much older then...
I left a jar of shoe polish at the traveling wall. Bob was the first boy I ever kissed and was a friend of my sister's boyfriend. We used to rib him a lot about his shiny shoes(patent leather). He stopped wearing them and his mother never knew why. His funeral was the first time the war really came home to me and I will never forget thinking his mother got the raw end of the deal when they handed her the flag. He was engaged to be married and they had decided to wait until he came home to get married, but... I lost a son a few years back and now know that special ache that never ends
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