HONORED ON PANEL 9E, LINE 91 OF THE WALL
LEONARD JEROME BIBBS
WALL NAME
LEONARD J BIBBS
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9E/91
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DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR LEONARD JEROME BIBBS
POSTED ON 8.20.2012
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Leonard is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip,IL.
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POSTED ON 6.2.2006
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
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POSTED ON 8.11.2005
POSTED BY: Bob Ross
Do not stand at my grave and weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.
Mary Frye – 1932
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.
Mary Frye – 1932
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POSTED ON 4.30.2004
POSTED BY: Rachel Hilgendorf
The Greatest Respect
Thank you for serving our country so well. Your courage will never be forgotten and the highest repsect is held for you and your soldiers
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POSTED ON 3.29.2003
POSTED BY: Dylan Punke
Thank You
Dear Leonard,
As a citizen of Illinois, I say thank you for your sacrifices to preserve the well-being of all of those that you knew. As a citizen of the United States, I say thank you for your protection of our rights and our freedoms. As a member of humanity, I thank you that I may live a life free of government suppression. You have not fallen to the ground but instead you have been raised to the high pedestal of HONOR, GLORY, and BRAVERY. Thank you.
As a citizen of Illinois, I say thank you for your sacrifices to preserve the well-being of all of those that you knew. As a citizen of the United States, I say thank you for your protection of our rights and our freedoms. As a member of humanity, I thank you that I may live a life free of government suppression. You have not fallen to the ground but instead you have been raised to the high pedestal of HONOR, GLORY, and BRAVERY. Thank you.
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