HONORED ON PANEL 19E, LINE 3 OF THE WALL
JAMES B BELL JR
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JAMES B BELL JR
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LEFT FOR JAMES B BELL JR
POSTED ON 3.8.2006
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 6.2.1999
POSTED BY: Barbara Mobley-Savage
Recollection
James B. Bell, Jr. attended school with me in Tampa, FL. He played the trumpet while in the band. He was always nice, mature and respectful with strong leadership skills. I miss him as a friend and schoo mate. I sometimes wonder what his life would have been like had he survived Viet Nam. God knew best. He married another school mate - Jackie Gibson Bell. James Bell, Jr. was serious about music & played a mean trumpet--I wonder if he also played while in the Army? REST WELL MY BROTHER, WE LOVE YOU & MISS YOU MUCH.
Your friend & pal,
Barbara J. Mbbley
Middleton HS Class of 1965
(Clarinet player)
GA State Representative
Spouse of Trombone player, Elder James L. Savage, Jr.
Your friend & pal,
Barbara J. Mbbley
Middleton HS Class of 1965
(Clarinet player)
GA State Representative
Spouse of Trombone player, Elder James L. Savage, Jr.
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