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HONORED ON PANEL 28W, LINE 101 OF THE WALL
JAMES EARL BOUYER
WALL NAME
JAMES E BOUYER
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28W/101
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LEFT FOR JAMES EARL BOUYER
POSTED ON 8.5.2014
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear PFC James Earl Bouyer, 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,
Curt Carter
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,
Curt Carter
POSTED ON 11.18.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear CPL James Frederick Worth, 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, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir
Curt Carter
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, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir
Curt Carter
POSTED ON 11.22.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
James is buried at Memory Gardens in Prattville,AL. ARCOM
POSTED ON 4.13.2006
POSTED BY: Gregory Payne
IN MEMORY OF JAMES EARL BOUYER
Prattville, Alabama
Private First Class
(Service Number)67112358
D Co 4th BN 12th INF
199th Light Infantry Brigade
United States Army
11B10 Infantryman
11 January 1948 - 01 April 1969
My Yen, Gia Dinh Province South Vietnam
Panel 28W Line 101
PFC JAMES EARL BOUYER was one of the first people that I met when I joined D Company 4th Battalion 12th Infantry 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam. James was our Platoon RTO (Radio, Telephone, Opperator) so he humpped the PRC25 Infantry Radio. I remember following behind him walking up some narrow muddy winding jungle path. Also because I was the new guy he made me trade weapons. "Here I'am swapping you my M-79 Grenade Launcher for your M-16 Rifle." James replied. I'll be darned if I'll get caught in a firefight with some old single shot thing!" he replied. Well as time went by, we got caught in a Viet Cong mortar attack on our permiter that adjoined a canal. James just happened to be crossing that canal in a sanpan (bamboo boat)with my M-16 Rifle when an incoming Communist 82mm mortar round landed not far from Jame's sanpan, it detonated in the water and capsized the little boat. Leaving James unharmed,but having to swim for it. He made it to the shore alright but my M-16 Rifle went to the bottom of the canal.
A few days later the tide went out leaving that canal high and dry. My M-16 Rifle was laying right on the top of a big thick mud bank. The C.O. was not at all happy about the situation, and made /James go back out there and fish that M-16 Rifle out of the mud. Well James started wading out there to go get it. he had barely reached out and grabbed the muzzle, when he started to sinking up to his waiste in mud and crying for Help! So we came to his rescue and pulled him out of the mud with a rope.
Shortly afterwards PFC JAMES EARL BOUYER was killed in a grenade accident that took him and Sgt. Richard Allen Thursby and William Arthur DeBates all from 3rd Squad (my Squad). James was a good hearted guy with a great sense of humor and his lose was felt through out our Company. May he now rest in peace in the golden light of Eternity from now and forevermore! Amen.
Your Comrade in arms,
SP/4 Gregory Payne
OREGON VETERANS HOME
700 Veterans Drive
The Dalles, OR 97058
[email protected]
POSTED ON 10.11.2005
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 heros 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 heros 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