HONORED ON PANEL 41E, LINE 44 OF THE WALL
ROY STEPHEN SPURGEON
WALL NAME
ROY S SPURGEON
PANEL / LINE
41E/44
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
RANK
REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR ROY STEPHEN SPURGEON
POSTED ON 12.20.2007
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Roy is buried at Santa Fe Nat Cemetery in NM.
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POSTED ON 1.4.2006
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 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 3.4.2004
POSTED BY: Melissa Kaeb
Thank you for your sacrifices
Dear Sir:
Thank you very much for the many sacrifices you made to serve our country. I am a student at Gridley High School in Gridley, Illinois and a part of the Gridley High School Posting Project. I just want to take this time to thank you for everything you have given up for our country. Your love for America is evident because of the sacrifices you have made, the greatest of which was your life. God Bless!
Sincerely, Melissa Kaeb
Thank you very much for the many sacrifices you made to serve our country. I am a student at Gridley High School in Gridley, Illinois and a part of the Gridley High School Posting Project. I just want to take this time to thank you for everything you have given up for our country. Your love for America is evident because of the sacrifices you have made, the greatest of which was your life. God Bless!
Sincerely, Melissa Kaeb
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POSTED ON 2.26.2004
POSTED BY: Luke Barnhart
Thank You
I am student participating in the Gridley High School Posting Project and I would like to thank you for your dedication and sacrifice for your country. Because of the sacrifice of great men such as you, freedom survives today. Thank you.
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POSTED ON 2.26.2004
POSTED BY: Alex Roth
Thank You
Dear fallen soldier, I am from Gridley High School and am doing a posting project for my U.S. History class in which we are trying to write remembrances for all the soldiers on the Vietnam Wall. I just wanted to say thank you for your faithful service of our country in its time of need. You will never be forgotten
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