HONORED ON PANEL 16E, LINE 109 OF THE WALL
BENITO ALANIZ
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BENITO ALANIZ
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16E/109
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LEFT FOR BENITO ALANIZ
POSTED ON 12.7.2005
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 hero’s 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 heros 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 hero’s 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 heros 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 3.19.2004
POSTED BY: Paige Porzelius
Thank You
My name is Paige Porzelius and I am involved in the Gridley High School Posting Project and Gridley High School. I live in Gridley, Illinois. This posting project is mainly posting remembrance for the veterans. I would just like to thank you for fighting for this country.
Thank You
Paige Porzelius
Thank You
Paige Porzelius
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POSTED ON 3.19.2004
POSTED BY: Sammy Henderson
Thank You
Thank you for giving your life in Vietnam. My name is Sammy Henderson and I live in Gridley, Illinois. This is a Gridley High School Posting Project. I am a sophomore at Gridley High School and I am posting remembrances to all of the soldiers who died in Vietnam. I am thankful for what you have done for this country. You will always be remembered. God bless you!
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POSTED ON 3.28.2003
POSTED BY: Kyle Fever
thank you
Dear, Benito
I am a senior from Gridley High School and I wanted to thank you for your services in the Vietnam War. You paid the supreme sacrifice defending our rights and liberties and for this I am truly thankful. You know as well as I do that your family and friends are proud of you, but I want you to know that all other Americans, including myself, are extremely proud of you for what you did.
I am a senior from Gridley High School and I wanted to thank you for your services in the Vietnam War. You paid the supreme sacrifice defending our rights and liberties and for this I am truly thankful. You know as well as I do that your family and friends are proud of you, but I want you to know that all other Americans, including myself, are extremely proud of you for what you did.
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