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

I am a student at Gridley High School, and as a part of the Gridley High School Posting Project, it is our goal to leave a remembrance of all of those who lost their life during the Vietnam War. Thank you for this tremendous sacrifice and your courageous attitude. God Bless you.

Sincerely yours,
Jessi Ortega

Hello my name is Jamie Dennison and I am a part of the Gridley High School posting project. I am doing a posting project for my U.S. History class. I don’t know you or know about you but I feel that you were an important person in this country. Thank you for everything that you have done for this country. You will be greatly remembered.

God Bless,
Jamie Dennison