HONORED ON PANEL 22W, LINE 30 OF THE WALL
BENJAMIN ROBERT ALDERSON
WALL NAME
BENJAMIN R ALDERSON
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22W/30
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LEFT FOR BENJAMIN ROBERT ALDERSON
POSTED ON 6.12.2015
POSTED BY: A Thankful Vietnam Vet
Thank You
Thank you PFC Alderson for your courage under fire.
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POSTED ON 6.12.2015
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear PFC Benjamin Robert Alderson, 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, 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, Sir
Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 11.20.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Ben is buried at Redding Cemetery, Redding,CA. SS BSM AM PH
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POSTED ON 6.24.2007
POSTED BY: SISTER OF ANOTHER SOLDIER
TOO MANY, TOO YOUNG
TOO MANY YOUNG SOLDIERS LOST THIER LIVES, WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A THANKS FROM MANY OF US THAT DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THE VIETNAM WAR.
I WONDER IF YOU AND MY BROTHER JOE (JOSE FRANCISCO ARROYO) EVER SHARED A THOUGHT, A MEAL, A GAME OF CARDS, I WONDER IF YOU WERE FRIENDS, FOR NOW YOU SHARE THE SAME WALL, THE SAME PANEL, THE SAME HEAVEN, AND THE SAME PLACE IN ALL OUR HEARTS.
GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY.
I WONDER IF YOU AND MY BROTHER JOE (JOSE FRANCISCO ARROYO) EVER SHARED A THOUGHT, A MEAL, A GAME OF CARDS, I WONDER IF YOU WERE FRIENDS, FOR NOW YOU SHARE THE SAME WALL, THE SAME PANEL, THE SAME HEAVEN, AND THE SAME PLACE IN ALL OUR HEARTS.
GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY.
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POSTED ON 4.26.2006
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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