ROBERT L LEMONS
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HONORED ON PANEL 10W, LINE 26 OF THE WALL

ROBERT LEE LEMONS

WALL NAME

ROBERT L LEMONS

PANEL / LINE

10W/26

DATE OF BIRTH

02/03/1949

CASUALTY PROVINCE

QUANG NGAI

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/12/1970

HOME OF RECORD

WAR

COUNTY OF RECORD

McDowell County

STATE

WV

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR ROBERT LEE LEMONS
POSTED ON 4.1.2020
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear Sp4 Robert Lemons, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Happy Spring! For many of us, we have begun Lent. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 1.29.2017

Final Mission of SP4 Robert L. Lemons

At 0827 hours on May 12, 1970, members of 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 11th Artillery, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, were securing a landing zone approximately three miles southwest of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province, RVN, when a booby-trapped 155mm round with several small arms rounds attached detonated. Eight personnel were killed in the blast and another eight were wounded. A total of three dustoffs (medical evacuation by helicopter) were required to remove the dead and wounded, the first and second completed at 0844 and 0850 hours, and the third at 1038 hours. The carnage from the explosion was devastating. One of the wounded suffered traumatic amputation of both legs above the knees and amputation of left arm; another lost both legs below the knee. There were several others with assorted fragmentation wounds, and one with hearing loss. The names of those killed included SSGT Charles D. McMahan, SP4 Terrance L. Hood, SP4 Robert L. Lemons, SP4 Greg E. Weightman, PFC Robert E. Green, 2LT Robert H. Johnson, CPL Robert Childress, and PFC David L. Palmer. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and 6-11artillery.org]
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POSTED ON 7.8.2016
POSTED BY: Stephen J. Kariwiec

Motown 11th inf. 4/3 Bravo Co.

Remembering you "Motown" and your sacrifice! God Bless.
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POSTED ON 3.6.2014
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SP4 Robert Lee Lemons, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

With respect, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 3.29.2006
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
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