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HONORED ON PANEL 32W, LINE 41 OF THE WALL
LARRY MELVIN ALCOS
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LARRY M ALCOS
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32W/41
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ASSOCIATED ITEMS LEFT AT THE WALL
REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR LARRY MELVIN ALCOS
POSTED ON 4.28.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Larry is buried at Mililani Memorial Park in Waipio, Oahu, HI. DFC AM PH
POSTED ON 5.22.2009
POSTED BY: A fellow vet
Son of Hawaii
One who has the face of a warrior (loyal and honored) in his place of birth.
(From the Hawaii Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
Aloha oe
POSTED ON 2.16.2008
POSTED BY: Robbie Owens
a hero
You sacrificed the same day as my fiance Robert David Rogers. A poem for you:
How often you will have me near you when wood smoke drifts across the wind, or the sky darkens in a summer storm - think of me in the days to come, as I am thinking of you this minute, not gone or alone or dead, but part of the earth beneath you, part of the air around you, part of the heart that must not be lonely.
How often you will have me near you when wood smoke drifts across the wind, or the sky darkens in a summer storm - think of me in the days to come, as I am thinking of you this minute, not gone or alone or dead, but part of the earth beneath you, part of the air around you, part of the heart that must not be lonely.
POSTED ON 10.13.2005
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
POSTED ON 2.16.2004
POSTED BY: Leilani Brunson
You have not been forgotten
Those of us who remember the Vietnam War are carrying the torch of remembrance for our fallen, our MIA's, and our POW's.
We are forever indebted to you, SP4 Alcos.
My websites are dedicated to our Vietnam vets and their families. Please visit.
http://vietnamvets.learncomputersnow.net
http://powmias.learncomputersnow.net
If I should die, and leave you here awhile, be not like others, sore undone, who keep long vigils by the silent dust, and weep...for MY sake, turn again to life, and smile...Nerving thy heart, and trembling hand to do something to comfort other hearts than thine... Complete these dear, unfinished tasks of mine...and I, perchance, may therein comfort you.