HONORED ON PANEL 3E, LINE 12 OF THE WALL
RODNEY CARSWELL HARRIS
WALL NAME
RODNEY C HARRIS
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3E/12
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR RODNEY CARSWELL HARRIS
POSTED ON 10.23.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear PFC Rodney Carswell Harris, sir
As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir
Curt Carter
As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir
Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 4.28.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Rodney is buried at Memorial Cemetery, Lake City, Columbia County,FL. PH
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POSTED ON 10.31.2006
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 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
"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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POSTED ON 3.28.2002
POSTED BY: CHAD WALDRON
A PAXON HIGH HERO
I NEVER KNEW HOW YOU DIED UNTIL I READ THE BOOK, WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...AND
YOUNG, THEN I LEARNED HOW YOU DIED. YOU ARE A HERO TO ALL OF US AND YOUR
LEGACY HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A FIRST RATE MOVIE. WE CHEATED OUR WAY THROUGH
MS STEPENSON'S ENGLISH CLASS AND THEN THAT TIME AT FOOTBALL PRACTICE WHEN
SOMEBODY GAVE US WATER TO DRINK IN A COKE BOTTLE ONLY TO FIND OUT THEY HAD
PISSED IN THE BOTTLE. JACKSONVILLE HAS CHANGED A LOT, ITS BIG AND STRANGE. YOU
CAN'T CRUISE THE KRYSTAL ANYMORE LIKE WE DID IN YOUR OLD CORVAIR, WHEN WE
SMOKED THOSE AWFUL CIGARS THAT MY MOTHER MADE. THAT TIME WE DRANK THE
LIQUOR YOU FILCHED FROM YOUR PARENTS. YOU WERE CRAZY AS A RUN OVER DOG AND
ONE OF THE MOST FUN GUYS I EVER KNEW. I KNOW YOU MUST HAVE BEEN LOVED BY THE
GUYS IN YOUR PLATOON. YOUR MEMORY WILL LIVE ON IN THOSE OF US WHO KNEW YOU
AND WHO STILL LOVE YOU FOR THE HERO THAT YOU REALLY ARE. GODSPEED OLD FRIEND.
YOUNG, THEN I LEARNED HOW YOU DIED. YOU ARE A HERO TO ALL OF US AND YOUR
LEGACY HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A FIRST RATE MOVIE. WE CHEATED OUR WAY THROUGH
MS STEPENSON'S ENGLISH CLASS AND THEN THAT TIME AT FOOTBALL PRACTICE WHEN
SOMEBODY GAVE US WATER TO DRINK IN A COKE BOTTLE ONLY TO FIND OUT THEY HAD
PISSED IN THE BOTTLE. JACKSONVILLE HAS CHANGED A LOT, ITS BIG AND STRANGE. YOU
CAN'T CRUISE THE KRYSTAL ANYMORE LIKE WE DID IN YOUR OLD CORVAIR, WHEN WE
SMOKED THOSE AWFUL CIGARS THAT MY MOTHER MADE. THAT TIME WE DRANK THE
LIQUOR YOU FILCHED FROM YOUR PARENTS. YOU WERE CRAZY AS A RUN OVER DOG AND
ONE OF THE MOST FUN GUYS I EVER KNEW. I KNOW YOU MUST HAVE BEEN LOVED BY THE
GUYS IN YOUR PLATOON. YOUR MEMORY WILL LIVE ON IN THOSE OF US WHO KNEW YOU
AND WHO STILL LOVE YOU FOR THE HERO THAT YOU REALLY ARE. GODSPEED OLD FRIEND.
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