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HONORED ON PANEL 24W, LINE 72 OF THE WALL
DOUGLAS GAYLORD SWANSTROM
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DOUGLAS G SWANSTROM
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LEFT FOR DOUGLAS GAYLORD SWANSTROM
POSTED ON 8.24.2013
POSTED BY: Roger D. Emmick, HM3 Danang, Vietnam (May 1967 - June 1968)
Never Forgotten!
You have been in my thoughts frequently over the last 40+ years since our high school days at Falconer - the wrestling team. Also our competition with delivering the Jamestown Post Journal. You almost made it out of there but sadly almost doesn't count. I visit your grave every time I'm in Ellington and there are now so many names whom we both knew. I see your brother often when I am back there and also pass by the old homestead with fond remembrance of the "swimming hole" out back - how much time has gone by and so much change has taken place. Gosh, I almost forgot what you looked like and can't believe I finally found a picture. May you rest in peace with the knowledge that you have NOT been forgotten - thank you so much for your service and sacrifice - truly priceless!
POSTED ON 6.27.2012
POSTED BY: Mike Krueger 3503 69-70
The cocanut cream bar
Someday you will have to tell me how you did it.
POSTED ON 8.9.2011
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Douglas is buried at Valley View Cemetery, Ellington,NY. BSM-OLC AM ARCOM PH
POSTED ON 4.18.2006
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