THE WALL OF FACES

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

Hello my name is Drew Bunting and I am this remembrance as part of the Gridley High School Posting Project. Even though I never knew you I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you and your family.

My name is Jesse MacDonald, and as part of the Gridley High School posting project, I would like to take this time to show my pride for the fighting men of this country, past and present. You ran the race, you did your best, and more than likely you saved many American lives in the process. Words cannot express how gratefull I, along with the rest of Gridley, Illinois, are for your selfless courage. Thank you.

My name is Cassi Fever and I attend Gridley High School in Gridley Illinois. I would like to take this time to honor and thank you for what you have accomplished for my fellow country. Thank you for everything you have done and for putting your life on the line to fight for what you believed in. Thanks Again, God Bless
Cassi Fever
Gridley High School Posting Project

I am very privileged to have the opportunity to pay tribute to a man who gave up everything he had and everything he loved for America. It is imperative that we recognize this soldier’s service to his country. He died with the most honor obtainable. This recognition is merely an attempt to restore the undying appreciation we need to have for this great soldier. May God rest his soul and bless his loved ones.