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HONORED ON PANEL 35W, LINE 83 OF THE WALL
STEPHEN GERE KELLY
WALL NAME
STEPHEN G KELLY
PANEL / LINE
35W/83
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
RANK
REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR STEPHEN GERE KELLY
POSTED ON 12.22.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Stephen is buried at North Shore Garden of Memories, Chicago.IL. BSM PH
POSTED ON 1.23.2006
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 12.16.1999
POSTED BY: DAN STAPLETON
MY DADS FRIEND STEPHEN KELLY
BY DANIEL S STAPLETON
STEPHEN GERE KELLY WAS MY DADS FRIEND IN
VIETNAM. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW IMPORTANT A FRIEND DURING THIS TIME OF MY DADS YOUNG LIFE WAS.DAD WAS YANKED OUT OF A LARGE FAMILY AND OUT OF WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE
BEST DAYS OF HIS LIFE AND SENT TO A PLACE SOUNDING LIKE A NIGHTMARE TO ME!
THEN ON JANUARY 13 1969 MY DADS BIRTHDAY HIS FRIEND STEPHEN KELLY WAS KILLED IN A MORTAR ATTACK .DAD DOESNT TALK A LOT ABOUT
STEPHEN I FEEL BECAUSE HE IS STILL SO SAD ABOUT LOSING HIM .PLEASE KNOW STEPHEN WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN PLEASE IF YOU ARE A FAMILY MEMBER OF STEPHEN CONTACT ME OR MY DAD AT 1 740 256 6467
STEPHEN KELLY IS SADLY MISSED
[DAN STAPLETON SON OF JOHN STAPLETON]
STEPHEN GERE KELLY WAS MY DADS FRIEND IN
VIETNAM. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW IMPORTANT A FRIEND DURING THIS TIME OF MY DADS YOUNG LIFE WAS.DAD WAS YANKED OUT OF A LARGE FAMILY AND OUT OF WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE
BEST DAYS OF HIS LIFE AND SENT TO A PLACE SOUNDING LIKE A NIGHTMARE TO ME!
THEN ON JANUARY 13 1969 MY DADS BIRTHDAY HIS FRIEND STEPHEN KELLY WAS KILLED IN A MORTAR ATTACK .DAD DOESNT TALK A LOT ABOUT
STEPHEN I FEEL BECAUSE HE IS STILL SO SAD ABOUT LOSING HIM .PLEASE KNOW STEPHEN WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN PLEASE IF YOU ARE A FAMILY MEMBER OF STEPHEN CONTACT ME OR MY DAD AT 1 740 256 6467
STEPHEN KELLY IS SADLY MISSED
[DAN STAPLETON SON OF JOHN STAPLETON]