THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Robert, to honor your memory and the sacrifice you made for our country I want to make sure your photo will be displayed on your birthday when the Education Center is completed, so it is with great pride and humility that I post your 1962 graduation picture from the Tarentum High School Yearbook along with a remembrance. You are not forgotten and remain in the hearts of many all these years later. You have been designated to be one of God's special angels, along with the love of my life, who also sacrificed his life during this war 45 years ago. Thanks to your classmate and friend, your photo has been corrected. Although we did not know each other, we did grow up in the same city. God Bless You, Robert, for being who you were and for all you did--we live in freedom to this day thanks to heroes like you.

He loved us so.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he told us so.
In honesty, in affection, he told us so.
He loved us so
Every day, in a hundred ways, he showed us so.
With loyalty and bravery, he showed us so.
He was our defender, and he kept us free!
He took an oath to guard us, and fought for liberty!
He loved us so, and we should know.
For we loved him so.
Sergeant Adams, your sacrifice was NOT in vain. America is still a free country. And the Stars and Stripes of our glorious flag still flies high over our land. I honestly believe that Avonmore's own Jill Corey, whom I admire as one of my three top favorite songbirds of all time, along with England's Julie Andrews and England's Dusty Springfield, would be proud of your service to out great land today. Well don, Sergeant. Be thou at peace.

Robert is buried at Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge,PA. PH

Pride in you - sorrow in my heart for you and all the others

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