THE WALL OF FACES

BEST BUD'S FOREVER.

Carl is buried at Lebanon Cemetery in Jasonville, IN. BSM/OLC PH

You will never be 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

Kelly was a friend of my brother. He was the only solder from our high school to die in Viet Nam. He was only there for 4 days short of 3 months. I remember how my brother cried when we heard that Kelly had died. He was a young man full of promise. Kelly had a great love of life and our town and community was left with a great hole in our lives when he died. We will never know what could have been for Kelly or those who loved him had he lived to tell of his life and service in Viet Nam. My brother will never forget him, nor will anyone else from Shakamak High School who was there in 1968 when we heard, on June 3, 1968, Cpl Carl Kelly All, of Midland Indiana, died in the service of his county in South Viet Nam. He was 21 years old. He was not married, He had no children. He left his immidiate family and a community who were so very proud of him and will never be the same without him. Rest in peace Kelly. You are our hero.