HONORED ON PANEL 25W, LINE 82 OF THE WALL
ALAN NEIL PRENTICE
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ALAN N PRENTICE
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LEFT FOR ALAN NEIL PRENTICE
POSTED ON 11.7.2012
POSTED BY: Lana Leitner Butler
Memory
Alan...the people in your home town of Rolla still remember you and hold you in their hearts and prayers. I pray that you rest easy Marine. God bless you.
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POSTED ON 6.23.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Alan is buried at Ozark Memorial Gardens,Rolla,MA. PH
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POSTED ON 3.29.2006
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
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POSTED ON 1.14.2004
POSTED BY: Jaynie (Allen) Branham
You still live in my heart, dear sweet Alan.
Alan Neil Prentice was my first cousin. We were the same age and very dear friends, even though he lived in Missouri and I in Texas. As teenagers we were especially close and wrote letters back and forth constantly. He was so smart, a very talented artist, and had a wonderful, wacky sense of humor. He was also incredibly kind.
Alan joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. His dream was to become an architect, but he wanted to finish his military duty before starting college.
How I wish I could still see him at family gatherings. We were supposed to go to each others' weddings, and give our children the opportunity to become friends. What a wonderful husband and father he would have been.
I will never forget you, Alan, and I look forward to seeing you again some day. Although you never totally embraced the religion of your parents, I know you had a genuine faith in our Lord and you are with Him in Heaven. Death had no victory over you.
Alan joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. His dream was to become an architect, but he wanted to finish his military duty before starting college.
How I wish I could still see him at family gatherings. We were supposed to go to each others' weddings, and give our children the opportunity to become friends. What a wonderful husband and father he would have been.
I will never forget you, Alan, and I look forward to seeing you again some day. Although you never totally embraced the religion of your parents, I know you had a genuine faith in our Lord and you are with Him in Heaven. Death had no victory over you.
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