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HONORED ON PANEL 21E, LINE 8 OF THE WALL
JOHN MICHAEL BIONDI
WALL NAME
JOHN M BIONDI
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21E/8
DATE OF BIRTH
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DATE OF CASUALTY
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR JOHN MICHAEL BIONDI
POSTED ON 4.19.2006
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 9.20.2002
POSTED BY: Dan Grossman
Remembering the Day
John
I was there the day you and others died when we got ambushed in the hills west of Duc Pho.
You were a nice guy, fun and easy to get along with. You gave yourself to your country and did your duty with honor. During a time when others were burning their draft cards, you gave your life so that future generations would be free. Now, that is something that all of us are proud of and is worth passing on to our fellow Americans.
Dan Grossman, Weapons Platoon
C Co, 1/327 Bn, 101st Airborne Division
I was there the day you and others died when we got ambushed in the hills west of Duc Pho.
You were a nice guy, fun and easy to get along with. You gave yourself to your country and did your duty with honor. During a time when others were burning their draft cards, you gave your life so that future generations would be free. Now, that is something that all of us are proud of and is worth passing on to our fellow Americans.
Dan Grossman, Weapons Platoon
C Co, 1/327 Bn, 101st Airborne Division
