THE WALL OF FACES

James is buried at Summer Hill Baptist Church Cemetery at Carthage, NC.

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 heros 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 heros 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

Thank you for giving your life to protect this great nation. Without the courage of men and women like you the United States would not be here today. My name is Jeremy Steffen and this is for the Gridley High School Posting Project.

You have so selflessly given to our nation and I hope that you know how much it means
to me. Your dedication and patriotism is inspiring. I just hope that, someday, I too can
posses these characteristics that you have shown us. Thank you for all that you have done.
You will not be forgotten.

Thank you.
Kate Ringger