THE WALL OF FACES

Terry Lee was the most caring person you could ever meet. He would do anything for anyone and would give you the clothes off of his back if you needed them and wouldn’t expect anything in return. He was so loving . He was 19 years old and volunteered to stay out in the field longer because they needed more men so the rest of his until could return coming home, he was still fighting and gave his life for this country. We love you and miss you.

Terry is buried at Valhalla Cemetery, Belleville, IL. PH-2GS

Photo of Corp Terry Lee Adkins.

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

Thank you for serving our country and giving the supreme sacrifice.