ANDRES BALAI
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HONORED ON PANEL 36W, LINE 28 OF THE WALL

ANDRES BALAI

WALL NAME

ANDRES BALAI

PANEL / LINE

36W/28

DATE OF BIRTH

05/17/1930

CASUALTY PROVINCE

DINH TUONG

DATE OF CASUALTY

12/16/1968

HOME OF RECORD

WAIPAHU

STATE

HI

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SSGT

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR ANDRES BALAI
POSTED ON 10.17.2011
POSTED BY: Domi Nabal

Never Forgotten

He is modest and very giving. He is a fine artist. Gave me advice about respect and to be myself. A loving husband and Father. Married a Korean girl from Seoul while stationed there in 1961 and had a son in 1964. He is the oldest of four boys.
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POSTED ON 9.7.2011

Never Forgotten

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POSTED ON 9.6.2011
POSTED BY: Marie (Dela Cruz) Paishon

My Uncle

My Uncle Andres Balai fought & died for his country.. along with thousands of men & women. He was a young man of 38 when he died, and we never got to say.. Thank you We Miss You
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POSTED ON 1.21.2010
POSTED BY: A fellow vet

A Son of Hawaii

He maka lehua no kona one hanau



One who has the face of a warrior (loyal and honored) in his place of birth.



(From the Hawaii Vietnam Veterans Memorial)



Aloha Oe

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POSTED ON 1.3.2007
POSTED BY: Nam Vet 2/502 Infantry 101st Airborne

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 and patriots 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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