THE WALL OF FACES

William is buried at Hampton National Cemetery.

Rest in peace with the warriors.

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

Dear Soldier,
You don’t know me. I’ve never met you, never spent time with you, never shook your hand. I don’t know about your childhood and where you grew up. I don’t know what your hopes, dreams, and fears were. But I do know a few things about you. I know I appreciate you. I know I have respect for you. And I know the world was blessed by you being in it.
I’m working on the Gridley High School Posting Project to post remembrances for fallen heroes from Vietnam. Thank you for all that you did. May God bless you and your family.
Sincerely,
Natalie Stoller

I wish that you were alive today so that I could shake your hand and tell you thank you. Your efforts during the Vietnam War have put a tremendous impact on my life. You left your home, traveled to a different place, not knowing what would happen, fought for people whom you didn’t know, and sacrificed your life for their freedom. You have my gratitude, valiant soldier, and your memory will live on. I remember you today. Rest in Peace.

I am a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, IL. I write this remembrance to you as
part of the Gridley High School Posting Project, a Project that ensures that those brave
men and women whom either perished or went MIA during the Vietnam War are not
forgotten.