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HONORED ON PANEL 2W, LINE 94 OF THE WALL
CHARLES MANUWAHL KALANI
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CHARLES M KALANI
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LEFT FOR CHARLES MANUWAHL KALANI
POSTED ON 10.19.2011
POSTED BY: Janna Hoehn
Aloha Dear Soldier
It has been an honor searching for your photo. Thank you for your service brave man. I wish I could have known you. I now, will never forget you. Aloha Specialist Kalani
POSTED ON 9.23.2011
POSTED BY: James Morikawa
From James Morikawa
I was inducted in active duty with Charles, July 4th, 1969. We were in the same basic training company at Fort Org, California. I met Charles again at Fort Rucker, Alabama. We were going through our Advance training. In 1970, I met up with Charles again at Camp Evans, Vietnam. He was a crewchief for Lancers, Company B, 158th Aviation, 101st Airborne. I was then a crewchief with Company C, Phoenix. I was later tranfered to Company C 101st Aviation, Blackwidows. I would met up with Charles now and then on flight missions. How we thought, 'What a small world'. I remember the last time I saw Charles. Our Huey Slick happen to land at his company's landing zone, and I had a chance to visit him. My luck, he was in his hooch. My last talk with him. And I recalled us talking about meeting up again in his hometown of Paia, Maui. Sadly that would never came to be. Ironic, I later found out he was KIA on the 1 January 1972. He surely must have been on extended tour. I miss you Charles . . . my friend. .
POSTED ON 11.15.2005
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 hero’s 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
"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 hero’s 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