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HONORED ON PANEL 50E, LINE 52 OF THE WALL
JAMES LLOYD PARSONS
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JAMES L PARSONS
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50E/52
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LEFT FOR JAMES LLOYD PARSONS
POSTED ON 6.1.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
James is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Warsaw, MO.
POSTED ON 5.28.2008
POSTED BY: Mike Butler
Small Town Remembers
I was a Freshman at Warsaw Highschool when I got the news that Jim had been killed in Viet Nam. It was a real shocker to me as Jim was my highschool basketball hero. His name was always being discussed at the barbershops and any place old guys hung out and talked sports. I remember the whole town being affected by Jim's death. It was a tragic loss and I still think back to that time when I hear about someone being killed in Iraq. The loss of such young good men and women in war is such a waste of future talent that all wars should be illegal.
POSTED ON 4.4.2008
POSTED BY: Fred Tomasello Jr.
Happy Moment
Jim was our Artillery Forward Observer, Doc was our Corpsman, and Billy Joe Mc Carty (KIA 5/26/68) was my radioman in 1967.
Semper Fi Forever guys,
Fred Tomasello Jr. LT, 2nd Platoon
Golf Company, 2/9, 3rd Mar Div
POSTED ON 2.13.2006
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 5.15.2002
POSTED BY: Norm West
Honor Man G Company, 2d Platoon, 42nd OCC
Jim, you were the honor man for our platoon in OCS. I came across your name the other day. I think of you and others from our company in TBS, namely Joe Welker, Fred Williams and Ron Sweet. It has been almost 35 years since Joe and Ron were killed in RVN. Next year will be 35 years since Fred and you were killed. All of you are remembered by me and many others I'm sure.