HONORED ON PANEL 29W, LINE 39 OF THE WALL
PHILLIP RANDALL PANNELL
WALL NAME
PHILLIP R PANNELL
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29W/39
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DATE OF CASUALTY
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR PHILLIP RANDALL PANNELL
POSTED ON 11.29.2005
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 hero’s 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 heros 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 hero’s 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 heros 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 4.21.2004
POSTED BY: Bethany Witzig
Dear Soldier
Dear Soldier,
Many people did not think that the United States should have gotten involved in the Vietnam War. I don’t know how you thought about going to war but you answered your country’s call when they needed you. I admire your honor and thank you for giving your life for the honor of your country.
Bethany Witzig
Gridley High School Posting Project
Many people did not think that the United States should have gotten involved in the Vietnam War. I don’t know how you thought about going to war but you answered your country’s call when they needed you. I admire your honor and thank you for giving your life for the honor of your country.
Bethany Witzig
Gridley High School Posting Project
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