THE WALL OF FACES

David is buried at Fairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT. Section 5B, grave 456. Section 5B is a veterans section that is located just north of the maintenance bldg.

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

David,
One of my classes in Gridley Illinois is doing a Gridley High School posting project to honor all the soldiers who gave their lives fighting for our country. Many people put their energy in to things meaningful to them, but you gave your life for others and our country, and this sacrifice will never be forgotten. Wherever there is talk of heroes and history you will be recognized as a great American Hero. Thank you! God Bless you and your loved ones!
Sincerely,
Kaleigh Schlipf

I thank you sir for all that you did during the Vietnam War. I am proud of you for sacrificing your life for the freedoms of others, but regret that you aren’t able to be here today. Your memory lives on, and I remember you on this day. Rest in peace.

I am a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, IL. I write this remembrance to you as
part of the Gridley High School Posting Project, a Project that ensures that those brave
men and women whom either perished or went MIA during the Vietnam War are not
forgotten.

I thank you sir for all that you did during the Vietnam War. I am proud of you for sacrificing your life for the freedoms of others, but regret that you aren’t able to be here today. Your memory lives on, and I remember you on this day. Rest in peace.

I am a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, IL. I write this remembrance to you as
part of the Gridley High School Posting Project, a Project that ensures that those brave
men and women whom either perished or went MIA during the Vietnam War are not
forgotten.