HONORED ON PANEL 4W, LINE 125 OF THE WALL
JAMES DARRELL WADDELL
WALL NAME
JAMES D WADDELL
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4W/125
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR JAMES DARRELL WADDELL
POSTED ON 2.8.2006
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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POSTED ON 7.24.2005
POSTED BY: Glynda Phillips
A smile bigger than life
I knew Jimmy as a high school student in Coleman, Texas - he played tuba in the band (it was as big as he was!) He was a quiet, friendly fellow - well liked for his sense of humor and friendliness - His gift to our nation must never be forgotten - Jimmy, I thank you with all my heart.
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POSTED ON 4.14.2004
POSTED BY: Kayla Butikofer
God Bless!
My name is Kayla Butikofer and I am from Gridley, Illinois. I attend Gridley High School and am in a World History Class. For a Gridley High School Posting Project we were assigned to do remembrances for causalities on this site, I think this is a great assignment to do. I want to thank you for supporting our country and dieing for it. You will never be forgotten. Thank you for everything you did. God Bless!
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