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HONORED ON PANEL 33W, LINE 75 OF THE WALL
CHARLES BEDFORD
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CHARLES BEDFORD
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33W/75
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LEFT FOR CHARLES BEDFORD
POSTED ON 12.11.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
POSTED ON 1.10.2006
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 8.27.2003
My Friend
Charles we were in vietnam for 11 months together before you died,and i`m proud to have been your friend.You always had a smile on your face,no matter what was going on around us.I remember the day you died just like it was yesterday,i look at your pic often and think of you.Be sure you will never be forgotten we talk of you often,for i have found a lot of mine and your friends from there.....we all miss you....Randy
POSTED ON 4.3.2003
Thank You
As an American citzen of this great country I would like to say thank from the bottom of my heart for your time and life in the vietnam war. I am a Jr in high school and my dad is a veteran of the war. I just want say thank for everything that you gave to our country. I dont think as many people thank veterans for what they did enough. Thank you for my freedom and for everything that I have now.
Sincerly,
Ben Jeffreys
Sincerly,
Ben Jeffreys
POSTED ON 2.7.2003
POSTED BY: cynthia blake
in gratitude
Charles Bedford - age 22
I feel everyone here needs some acknowledgement of their ultimate sacrifice for our country. You had a life that deserved many more years. You left behind people who loved you and who, I imagine still feel the pain of your loss to this day. I hope they have comfort in knowing you are at rest and that they will someday see you again in a much better place.
Your courage and efforts in Vietnam will never be forgotten in my heart and in a multitude of others who have the upmost respect and honor for the soldiers who lost their lives there.
in Peace always
February 7, 2003
I feel everyone here needs some acknowledgement of their ultimate sacrifice for our country. You had a life that deserved many more years. You left behind people who loved you and who, I imagine still feel the pain of your loss to this day. I hope they have comfort in knowing you are at rest and that they will someday see you again in a much better place.
Your courage and efforts in Vietnam will never be forgotten in my heart and in a multitude of others who have the upmost respect and honor for the soldiers who lost their lives there.
in Peace always
February 7, 2003