THE WALL OF FACES

I visit the Wall every time I'm in D.C. to say hi. Every April, I pause to recall your passing. I'll never forget that sad and frightening evening when you were fatally wounded. Even more importantly, I remember your humor and wonderful free spirit. Rest easy buddy.

John Black, I will never forget you and your vibrant personality. I'll see you in heaven and thank you for your ultimate sacrifice. Your 1966 classmate.

John is buried at Denison Cemetery, McCurtain County, OK.

Thank you so much for serving our country. It is people like you who make America the great country that it is. I am eternally greatful for your service to the United States.

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