HONORED ON PANEL 25W, LINE 94 OF THE WALL
PATRICK WALLACE BEST
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PATRICK W BEST
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25W/94
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LEFT FOR PATRICK WALLACE BEST
POSTED ON 3.30.2006
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 7.25.2002
POSTED BY: Scott Gunther
good times
Pat will always be remembered from our early adolescense.I remember CYO dances,playing endless wiffleball,hanging out
and growing our first facial hair together.Pat, you were a
good friend.
and growing our first facial hair together.Pat, you were a
good friend.
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POSTED ON 2.19.1999
POSTED BY: Jim K.
We Remember You Pat.
I remember Pat from high school. We were not real close, but I do remember he was a good, sensitive person. I was very sorry to hear that he lost his life in Vietnam. I wish his family and friends the best, and I want them to know that we do remember.
Sincerely,
Jim K. from Nathan Hale High School
Sincerely,
Jim K. from Nathan Hale High School
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