THE WALL OF FACES

Mike and I were from Manville, NJ and served together with Company 2nd 39th Infantry 9th Inf. Division until Mike was KIA on April 4, 1967 on operation Port Sea war zone D 3rd corp. Mike and I were best friends and he is greatly missed but always remembered.

Michael is buried at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Manville, Somerset County, NJ.

Michael W. Martineau is remembered at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and Vietnam Era Educational Center. To learn more search on www.njvvmf.org.

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

With honor and respect I am posting a remembrance for Michael William Martineau for he gave his life in the time of need for our country. I thank him for this and his sacrifices will never be forgotten.