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HONORED ON PANEL 23W, LINE 42 OF THE WALL
RICHARD LEE BRECH
WALL NAME
RICHARD L BRECH
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23W/42
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LEFT FOR RICHARD LEE BRECH
POSTED ON 11.16.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Richard is buried at Catholic Cemetery,Philip,SD. BSM-OLC PH
POSTED ON 4.20.2006
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
POSTED ON 8.19.2003
POSTED BY: Roger Ables
Richard Brech Died In Quang Tin Province
Richard was a member of the aero-rifle infantry platoon of B Troop, 2nd Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division(Airmobile). He died not in Phuoc Long Province but on Hill 376 southwest of Tam Ky in Quang Tin Province. Four other men died there with him that afternoon when his platoon was ambushed by a numerically superior NVA force. Richard, known as "Butch" by his family, moved forward with his radio to check on three fallen men. He became pinned down but was able to see the enemy positions and began to relay that information back to his platoon leader. He finally managed to reach his fallen friends and reported that they were KIA. Shortly afterwords he was mortally wounded. For his bravery that day Richard Lee Brech was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal w/ "V" (First Oak Leaf Cluster)
POSTED ON 11.8.2002
POSTED BY: Pete Bridgeman
An Honor to Remember you on Veteran's Day, 2002
This is just to say thanks to you for the ultimate sacrifice you endured for your country. It is deeply appreciated, and I honor you for it. It is my great honor to be able to read your name at the Wall on November 10th, 2002. Thank you, Richard!