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HONORED ON PANEL 18E, LINE 4 OF THE WALL
DOUGLAS C HOLLAND
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DOUGLAS C HOLLAND
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LEFT FOR DOUGLAS C HOLLAND
POSTED ON 12.19.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear SP4 Douglas C Holland, 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
POSTED ON 9.4.2012
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Douglas is buried at Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, CA. BSM PH
POSTED ON 3.24.2007
POSTED BY: joe renner
THINKING OF YOU
I write this today, March 24, 2007, your birthday. In 16 more days you will have been gone 40 years. It makes me very sad to think of all of the good things you did not get to accomplish in those 40 years. Your energy, spirit and determination would had taken you to the top of whatever mountain you chose to climb. Sadly, your story has been repeated a million times over in our county’s history. You are in the best of company.
Your friend - joe renner
Your friend - joe renner
POSTED ON 2.1.2006
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
POSTED ON 8.21.2005
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
Lancaster (PA) New Era - April 13, 1967
Caption: Spec.4 Douglas Holland, 23, of Anita, Ia., combat photographer for the 173rd Airborne Brigade, shouldered machine gun and ammunition a few days before he was killed during battle in War Zone C. Holland who had only 21 days left to go in Vietnam, asked to go on one last combat assualt.