KENDALL W THOMPSON
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HONORED ON PANEL 60W, LINE 6 OF THE WALL

KENDALL WILLIAM THOMPSON

WALL NAME

KENDALL W THOMPSON

PANEL / LINE

60W/6

DATE OF BIRTH

12/21/1945

CASUALTY PROVINCE

DINH TUONG

DATE OF CASUALTY

06/03/1968

HOME OF RECORD

PIEDMONT

COUNTY OF RECORD

Alameda County

STATE

CA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

CPL

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR KENDALL WILLIAM THOMPSON
POSTED ON 4.21.2006
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
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POSTED ON 5.16.2005
POSTED BY: Mike Magill, USAF Security Service

Just another kid

Kendall and I grew up together, in the same elementary, Junior High, and High Schools. We went to each other's birthday partys, but were not close, just neighbors and friends of a sort. I was in country from 1965 to late 1967. Why I made it out and he didn't, only God knows. God Speed you on your journey to Heaven, Amigo.
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