LEON N BOBO
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HONORED ON PANEL 10W, LINE 74 OF THE WALL

LEON NELSON BOBO

WALL NAME

LEON N BOBO

PANEL / LINE

10W/74

DATE OF BIRTH

01/25/1951

CASUALTY PROVINCE

KIEN TUONG

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/21/1970

HOME OF RECORD

ST LOUIS

COUNTY OF RECORD

St. Louis City

STATE

MO

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR LEON NELSON BOBO
POSTED ON 6.4.2019

Ground Casualty

SP4 Leon N. Bobo was an Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice serving with Headquarters & Headquarters Troop (HHT), 7th Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 1st Aviation Brigade. On May 21, 1970, SP4 Bobo died in Kien Tuong Province, RVN, reportedly by drowning. His body was recovered. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org; article from The Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, MO), June 5, 1970, courtesy of Claire P. Marks, Senior Archivist, Research Center–St. Louis, The State Historical Society of Missouri, St. Louis, MO]
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POSTED ON 4.14.2017
POSTED BY: Lucy Conte Micik

Remembered

DEAR SPEC 4 BOBO,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE APPRENTICE WITH THE 1ST CAVALRY. MIKE WAS 1ST CAV, SAY HI TO HIM. IT HAS BEEN FAR TOO LONG FOR ALL OF YOU TO HAVE BEEN GONE. WE APPRECIATE ALL YOU HAVE DONE, AND YOUR SACRIFICE. WATCH OVER THE U.S.A., IT STILL NEEDS YOUR COURAGE. GOD BLESS YOU. MAY THE ANGELS BE AT YOUR SIDE. REST IN PEACE. MANY OF US HAVE BEGUN OUR JOURNEY TO EASTER. AND YOU ARE ALL IN OUR PRAYERS. IT IS GOOD FRIDAY, AND PASSOVER - GOD'S BLESSINGS ON YOU.
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POSTED ON 7.4.2015
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SP4 Leon Nelson Bobo, 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, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 4.18.2006
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 12.4.2004
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Leon is buried at Jefferson Barracks Nat Cem.
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