HONORED ON PANEL 6E, LINE 104 OF THE WALL
THOMAS DONALD STEELE
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THOMAS D STEELE
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6E/104
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LEFT FOR THOMAS DONALD STEELE
POSTED ON 12.15.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear PFC Thomas Donald Steele, 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
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POSTED ON 10.30.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Thomas is buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, Hanover TWP, Luzerne,PA.
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POSTED ON 4.7.2006
POSTED BY: Garnet Cooke
Your song
April 11, 2006
Dear Thomas,
I can hardly believe it's been a year since I went to Viet Nam to play "Run Through the Jungle" in your honor at what I'd hoped was the Abilene battlesite. I will never forget my sadness over the loss of the jungle and the way you and the guys made it seem like one for me with the undulating roar of the cicadas alternating with the songs of the invisible jungle birds. I found myself chuckling through my tears, and my guide said he'd taken biologists into the national parks and had never heard anything like that.
While I wasn't exactly at the battlesite, I was where I was directed to be...to enable that local man to approach and tell us about the 5 American graves located in front of where I sat to play the songs for the men of Charlie Company and Wm H Pitsenbarger. So now I wait to hear the outcome from JPAC on their findings.
I will not forget you or your sacrifice. Thank you for an amazing journey!
Respectfully,
Garnet
Dear Thomas,
I can hardly believe it's been a year since I went to Viet Nam to play "Run Through the Jungle" in your honor at what I'd hoped was the Abilene battlesite. I will never forget my sadness over the loss of the jungle and the way you and the guys made it seem like one for me with the undulating roar of the cicadas alternating with the songs of the invisible jungle birds. I found myself chuckling through my tears, and my guide said he'd taken biologists into the national parks and had never heard anything like that.
While I wasn't exactly at the battlesite, I was where I was directed to be...to enable that local man to approach and tell us about the 5 American graves located in front of where I sat to play the songs for the men of Charlie Company and Wm H Pitsenbarger. So now I wait to hear the outcome from JPAC on their findings.
I will not forget you or your sacrifice. Thank you for an amazing journey!
Respectfully,
Garnet
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POSTED ON 2.2.2006
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
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POSTED ON 11.2.2003
POSTED BY: Jen Steffen
Thank You Thomas!
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for the bravery and determination you have shown. As a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, Illinois, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you and your family. We are doing a class project in remembering thousands who have so willingly gave up their lives. You are a hero and will not be forgotten.
Thanks!
Jen Steffen
Thank you for the bravery and determination you have shown. As a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, Illinois, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you and your family. We are doing a class project in remembering thousands who have so willingly gave up their lives. You are a hero and will not be forgotten.
Thanks!
Jen Steffen
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