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HONORED ON PANEL 18E, LINE 74 OF THE WALL
RAYMOND EDDIE BENSON
WALL NAME
RAYMOND E BENSON
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18E/74
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LEFT FOR RAYMOND EDDIE BENSON
POSTED ON 5.29.2012
POSTED BY: Sissy Benson Seals
Memorial Day
Have been thinking of you alot lately, even more so this weekend & today. I miss you alot even after all these years. Paige has been asking alot of questions about you. She has a little place in her bedroom room with your pictures & other things she has collected. I love & miss you very much Daddy!!!!
POSTED ON 8.15.2009
POSTED BY: Sissy Benson Seals
MY DADDY
I Love You,
Sissy
POSTED ON 2.17.2006
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 4.23.2005
POSTED BY: tommy locastro, aco/2/327
sgt benson
was on the lz that moring of the 23rd of april and was also wounded,when the chopper went down on the lz.was one of the first to reach him since i was on the next chopper going out.