THE WALL OF FACES

Montgomery County Maryland is honoring our 130 residents killed in Vietnam in a ceremony on 21 May 2018 with a wall of names being unveiled.This is to invite friends and relatives of Donald to join us in honoring him.Please contact me for more information.

As one of the 1046 Marylanders who made the ultimate sacrifice we are honored to post your photograph. The Operation Remember project will continue until we have recovered the photos of all our fallen brothers from the State of Maryland.

Visit ormv.wordpress.com for more details about this project of remembrance.

Jim Gerity
Chairperson
Operation Remember
Vietnam Veterans of America
Baltimore, Chapter 451
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Dear SGT Donald Eugene Weisman, 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, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

With honors to Walt Whitman. Don was an important member of my team. I rotated before the incident and wished that I had remained, as I often blamed myself for his death. I visit the wall whenever I can.

Don and I were close, he and I would pass the down time talking about past tours and 'after the war' dreams. He talked about his family and Buckshot. He had a pet dog there who died with him.

I will never forget!

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