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HONORED ON PANEL 36E, LINE 64 OF THE WALL
KENNETH JOHN AINSWORTH
WALL NAME
KENNETH J AINSWORTH
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36E/64
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR KENNETH JOHN AINSWORTH
POSTED ON 8.31.2016
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
Times Picayune - April 27, 1968
MRS. PATRICIA AINWORTH, widow of SP 5 Kenneth J. Ainsworth of Harahan, receives the Bronze Star, Air Medal, Purple Heart and other campaign medals awarded to her husband posthumously. Maj. Gilmer J. Martin Sr., USAR Advisor Group, makes the presentation. Ainsworth died from wounds received in action in Vietnam Feb. 2, 1968.
POSTED ON 8.10.2016
POSTED BY: Lucy Conte Micik
Remembered
DEAR SPEC 5 AINSWORTH,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A FLIGHT OPERATIONS COORDINATOR. I WISH YOU HAD A PHOTO BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU MORE THAN JUST A NAME ON A WALL.
REST IN PEACE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A FLIGHT OPERATIONS COORDINATOR. I WISH YOU HAD A PHOTO BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU MORE THAN JUST A NAME ON A WALL.
REST IN PEACE.
POSTED ON 11.8.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear SP5 Kenneth John Ainsworth, 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 8.29.2009
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Kenneth is buried at Lakelawn Mausoleum in New Orleans,LA.
POSTED ON 1.12.2006
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