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HONORED ON PANEL 38W, LINE 78 OF THE WALL
WILLIAM DAVID RAY
WALL NAME
WILLIAM D RAY
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38W/78
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR WILLIAM DAVID RAY
POSTED ON 3.9.2015
POSTED BY: Carl Bouk
Great friend
David lived about 6 houses away from us on Aurora.David and I were in the class of 66 together. I remember him as a class guy, always friendly. David's passing was a real shock to me and brought the reality and horror of war right in my face. We of the class of 66 grew up fast with these and other deaths came up.
I went to the "Wall" in DC about 89'. When I saw David's name and other friends I cried for a solid hour.
Let us NEVER forget the sacrifice of these men and women.
I went to the "Wall" in DC about 89'. When I saw David's name and other friends I cried for a solid hour.
Let us NEVER forget the sacrifice of these men and women.
POSTED ON 11.4.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear PFC William David Ray, 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
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
POSTED ON 9.21.2012
POSTED BY: Billy M. Brown
Honoring California Vietnam Casualties
May his sacrifice not be forgotten.
POSTED ON 6.3.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
WE remember
William is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in El Centro, CA. PH
POSTED ON 12.18.2006
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
"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