PIETRO PICONI
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HONORED ON PANEL 38W, LINE 68 OF THE WALL

PIETRO PICONI

WALL NAME

PIETRO PICONI

PANEL / LINE

38W/68

DATE OF BIRTH

02/03/1946

CASUALTY PROVINCE

TAY NINH

DATE OF CASUALTY

11/26/1968

HOME OF RECORD

HANNASTOWN

COUNTY OF RECORD

Westmoreland County

STATE

PA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR PIETRO PICONI
POSTED ON 11.2.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SP4 Pietro Piconi, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 12.31.2011

For SP4 Pietro PICONI, USA...Hannastown's bravest of heroes, who gave his life for our country!!!!!!

He loved us so.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he told us so.
In honesty, in affection, he told us so.
He loved us so.
Every day, in a hundred ways, he showed us so.
With loyalty and bravery, he showed us so.
He was our defender, and he kept us free!
He took an oath to guard us, and fought for liberty!
He loved us so, and we should know.
For we loved him so.
Specuialist Piconi, your service and your sacrifice will be remembered always!...for you have given all that mortality could give. You have never failed us. Our country is still free because of your dedication to defending liberty everywhere. I honestly believe that Avonmore's own Jill Corey, whom I admire greatly as one of my three top favorite songbirds, along with Julie Andrews and Dusty Springfield, would be proud of your service to our nation. Well done, soldier! Be thou at peace!
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POSTED ON 10.28.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Pietro is buried at Greensburg Catholic Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland County,PA.
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POSTED ON 12.15.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson Nam Vet 101st Airborne

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 and patriots 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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