THE WALL OF FACES

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

Andrew is buried at Arlington Nat Cem.

I am posting this as part of the Gridley High School posting project for one of my classes at Gridley High School in Gridley Illinois. We as American citizens are indebted to you, Andrew Winter Jr Youngkin, for the supreme sacrifice that you gave to keep our country free. You will never be forgotten and may you rest in peace.

We continue to search for your photo for inclusion in the Operation Remember project.
This project of remembrance will not be complete until we recover photos of all 1046
Sons of Maryland who made the ultimate sacrifice.

If visitors here have information or a photo please contact us at [email protected]

It is our duty to remember.

Jim Gerity
Chairperson
Operation Remember
Vietnam Veterans of America
Baltimore, Chapter 451
www.vva451.org