HONORED ON PANEL 9W, LINE 5 OF THE WALL
WIELAND CLYDE NORRIS
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WIELAND C NORRIS
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LEFT FOR WIELAND CLYDE NORRIS
POSTED ON 9.19.2009
POSTED BY: Dave
Screaming Eagle
PFC Wieland Norris (26), U.S. Army
"Airborne"
Purple Heart* ...
South Vietnam: 1970
Unit: A Company, 2nd Bn., 506th Airborne Infantry, 101st Airborne Div.
KIA: June 3, 1970 (Firebase Ripcord, Mar. 12--July 23, 1970)
TV: War Stories (Oliver North), "Seige of Firebase Ripcord"; 23 days
"Airborne"
Purple Heart* ...
South Vietnam: 1970
Unit: A Company, 2nd Bn., 506th Airborne Infantry, 101st Airborne Div.
KIA: June 3, 1970 (Firebase Ripcord, Mar. 12--July 23, 1970)
TV: War Stories (Oliver North), "Seige of Firebase Ripcord"; 23 days
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POSTED ON 4.21.2006
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 7.1.2003
POSTED BY: Dave Avery
Who Shall We Send
"An God said who shall we send.I answered I am here,send me."
Isaiah 6:8
Isaiah 6:8
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POSTED ON 4.7.2003
POSTED BY: Donald Lytle
Thank you Soldier
Although we never met personally, I want to thank you Wieland Clyde Norris, for your courageous and valiant service, faithful contribution, and most holy sacrifice, given to this great country of ours!
Your Spirit is alive--and strong, therefore, you shall never be forgotten, nor has your death been in vain!
Again, job well done!
REST IN ETERNAL PEACE MY FRIEND
Your Spirit is alive--and strong, therefore, you shall never be forgotten, nor has your death been in vain!
Again, job well done!
REST IN ETERNAL PEACE MY FRIEND
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POSTED ON 11.7.2002
POSTED BY: His brother Chuck's granddaughter
To my great-uncle
To my dear great-uncle. I have to say, I wasn't alive when you were, but I have heard much about you from my grandfather, Chuck Norris(Paka), and greatgrandmother, Wilma Knight(Mema). I post this in great awe and respect for the couragous thing you did.
Lots of love,
Your Grand-neice
Lots of love,
Your Grand-neice
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