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HONORED ON PANEL 13E, LINE 73 OF THE WALL
JOHN LEONARD SCHMECKER
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JOHN L SCHMECKER
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LEFT FOR JOHN LEONARD SCHMECKER
POSTED ON 8.1.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
John is buried at Mount Saint Peter Catholic Cemetery, Derby, New Haven County,CT. PH
POSTED ON 11.1.2007
POSTED BY: Wayne G. Brassell
Forty one years ago
As the years pass, my memory of you never dims. I was one of the lucky ones that came back. The ultimate sacrifice you made in 'NAM in '66 is again being carried out by yet another generation of kids just like we were...in another part of the world that is just as remote and far away as the one in which we were confronted with. They, like us, are warriors, infused with the "warrior spirit" and like us, they go off to combat with the mindset that they are invincible. I pray, as our own families did forty years ago, that this conflict ends in victory and that our men and women in uniform return home swiftly.
POSTED ON 11.1.2007
POSTED BY: Wayne G. Brassell
My friend and fellow soldier
Jack and I went thru Infantry AIT together (Co. F, 7th Tng Bde., 3rd Training Battalion) at Fort Gordon, Ga Jan-Mar '66 and parachute school at Fort Benning, Ga. Mar-Apr '66. He was a wonderful individual, full of entheusiasm,and a great sense of humor. After parachute school, I was assigned to Recon Platoon, HHB 1/503 173rd Abn Bde., and Jack was assigned to the First Cavalry Division. He gave his all for our country and our way of life...my memory of him over the past forty years is as clear and fresh as yesterday.
POSTED ON 1.26.2006
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