HONORED ON PANEL 50W, LINE 48 OF THE WALL
RONALD CHARLES BAKEWELL
WALL NAME
RONALD C BAKEWELL
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50W/48
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR RONALD CHARLES BAKEWELL
POSTED ON 1.17.2010
POSTED BY: Joel Denney
No way to say...
Grew up, played, schooled and entered the Army together. We both went but I was lucky, Ronnie was not. I saw him laid to rest and have never forgotten. Thank you my friend. I think of you often.
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POSTED ON 10.11.2005
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 heros 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 heros 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 heros 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 heros 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 1.7.1999
POSTED BY: KENNETH BAKEWELL
NEVER FORGOTTEN
HE WAS MY BROTHER.I STILL MISS HIM TO THIS VERY DAY.HE LOVES HIS 66 VETTE,HIS FAMILY,AND WOMEN.I WISH THAT I COULD SEE AND TALK WITH HIM FOR FIVE MINUTES.
WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU AND APPRECIATE YOUR SACRIFICE FOR EVER.
LOVE, KEN
WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU AND APPRECIATE YOUR SACRIFICE FOR EVER.
LOVE, KEN
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