THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your sacrifice.

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

Roland is buried at Corinth Cem, Seminole Co, GA.

Thank you soldier for serving America to your fullest. I am a student of Gridley High School in Illinois, and am doing an extra credit project on the virtual wall. I would like to extend my greatest admiration to the fallen soldiers like you who make America a great Nation. Diligence, Integrity, Bravery, and Virtue were clearly seen in your actions as a Soldier of the United States of America. Well done Sir, I will never forget your service to America.