HONORED ON PANEL 27W, LINE 88 OF THE WALL
JOHN ANTHONY LA POLLA
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JOHN A LA POLLA
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27W/88
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LEFT FOR JOHN ANTHONY LA POLLA
POSTED ON 5.30.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
John is buried at Calvary Cemetery, Utica,NY. BSM PH
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POSTED ON 8.28.2008
POSTED BY: West Frankfort Friend
Thinking of Johnny today
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
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POSTED ON 2.8.2006
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
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POSTED ON 12.16.2004
POSTED BY: Richard
In Remembrance
A remembrance of SSgt John La Polla appears in the nonfiction book "Soul Patrol" by Ed Emanuel (published in 2003 by the Random House Publishing Group). We all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to SSgt La Polla and the other members of our military who gave so much.
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