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HONORED ON PANEL 14W, LINE 84 OF THE WALL
DAVID LEE HEMKE
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DAVID L HEMKE
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14W/84
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LEFT FOR DAVID LEE HEMKE
POSTED ON 1.7.2012
For PFC David Lee HEMKE, USA...Apollo's bravest of heroes, who gave his life for all of us!!!!!!!!!!
He loved us so.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he told us so.
In honesty, in affection, he told us so.
He loved us so.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he showed us so.
With loyalty and bravery, he showed us so.
He was our defender, and he kept us free!
He took an oath to guard us, and fought for liberty!
He loved us so, and we should know.
For he loved us so.
PFC Hemke, your service to our Nation will be deeply remembered! You kept our country free, and your sacrifice was NOT in vain. I believe that Avonmore's own Jill Corey, whom I greatly admire as one of my three top favorite songbirds, along with Julie Andrews and Dusty Springfield, would be proud of your service to our country! You have given all that mortality can give in the defense of freedom! Well done, Soldier! Be thou at oeace.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he told us so.
In honesty, in affection, he told us so.
He loved us so.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he showed us so.
With loyalty and bravery, he showed us so.
He was our defender, and he kept us free!
He took an oath to guard us, and fought for liberty!
He loved us so, and we should know.
For he loved us so.
PFC Hemke, your service to our Nation will be deeply remembered! You kept our country free, and your sacrifice was NOT in vain. I believe that Avonmore's own Jill Corey, whom I greatly admire as one of my three top favorite songbirds, along with Julie Andrews and Dusty Springfield, would be proud of your service to our country! You have given all that mortality can give in the defense of freedom! Well done, Soldier! Be thou at oeace.
POSTED ON 1.13.2006
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