HOWARD C BLEVINS
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HONORED ON PANEL 6E, LINE 97 OF THE WALL

HOWARD CALVIN BLEVINS

WALL NAME

HOWARD C BLEVINS

PANEL / LINE

6E/97

DATE OF BIRTH

10/15/1944

CASUALTY PROVINCE

PR & MR UNKNOWN

DATE OF CASUALTY

04/11/1966

HOME OF RECORD

BURNSVILLE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Yancey County

STATE

NC

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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ASSOCIATED ITEMS LEFT AT THE WALL

REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR HOWARD CALVIN BLEVINS
POSTED ON 1.15.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Howard is buried at Young Cemetery, Yancey County,NC. PH
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POSTED ON 4.7.2006
POSTED BY: Garnet Cooke

Your Song

April 11, 2006
Dear Howard,
I can hardly believe it's been a year since I went to Viet Nam to play "Cottonfields" in your honor at what I'd hoped was the Abilene battlesite. I will never forget my sadness over the loss of the jungle and the way you and the guys made it seem like one for me with the undulating roar of the cicadas alternating with the songs of the invisible jungle birds. I found myself chuckling through my tears, and my guide said he'd taken biologists into the national parks and had never heard anything like that.
While I wasn't exactly at the battlesite, I was where I was directed to be...to enable that local man to approach and tell us about the 5 American graves located in front of where I sat to play the songs for the men of Charlie Company and Wm H Pitsenbarger. So now I wait to hear the outcome from JPAC on their findings.
I will not forget you or your sacrifice. Thank you for an amazing journey!
Respectfully,
Garnet
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POSTED ON 2.2.2006
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

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POSTED ON 12.25.2003
POSTED BY: Tony Blevins

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In honor of an uncle I never knew.
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POSTED ON 4.11.2003
POSTED BY: Jordan Meiss (Gridley, IL)

Our generation is grateful.

During times of war, such as now, the eyes of Americans are opened up and our nation becomes stronger together. No longer do citizens take things for granted, such as remembering soldiers who gave their lives in battle fighting for an earlier cause. The truth is the cause was just as important then as it is now. Unfortunately, our generation does not always give credit where credit is due. This recognition is an attempt to restore the undying appreciation we need to have for this great soldier and all those who gave up everything they had and everything they loved for America. God bless.
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