HONORED ON PANEL 5W, LINE 84 OF THE WALL
RUSSELL GLEN BLOCHER
WALL NAME
RUSSELL G BLOCHER
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5W/84
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LEFT FOR RUSSELL GLEN BLOCHER
POSTED ON 2.7.2007
The last boat home
Russell I was on the boat behind yours.I will never forget that day.I still have trouble even today dealing with that day and or times on the rivers.Rest in peace my friend and I will see you when I catch the next boat home. Kentucky Butch
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POSTED ON 1.10.2006
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 5.28.2001
POSTED BY: daniel miller
namesake
uncle russell,
in remberance of you i named my youngest son russell.
i think of you often and hope you can see my family.
your namesake is now in the navy and holds rank e-4.
he reminds me so much of you and keeps your memory
alive for us all.he is now 20yrs. old and just got
married.i have told him how you were my favorite uncle
and how you always had time for me. i even told him
about the time you accidently shot me with the pellet
gun and how i carry that pellet with me forever.i miss
you so much and many times have thought you were near
and with me.
love danny
in remberance of you i named my youngest son russell.
i think of you often and hope you can see my family.
your namesake is now in the navy and holds rank e-4.
he reminds me so much of you and keeps your memory
alive for us all.he is now 20yrs. old and just got
married.i have told him how you were my favorite uncle
and how you always had time for me. i even told him
about the time you accidently shot me with the pellet
gun and how i carry that pellet with me forever.i miss
you so much and many times have thought you were near
and with me.
love danny
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