HONORED ON PANEL 58E, LINE 29 OF THE WALL
GARY LEE ALLEN
WALL NAME
GARY L ALLEN
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58E/29
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DATE OF CASUALTY
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LEFT FOR GARY LEE ALLEN
POSTED ON 11.25.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear WO Gary Lee Allen, 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
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
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POSTED ON 1.2.2011
POSTED BY: Barbara Lee Allen Ridge
My father...my hero....
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, but to lay down one's life for One's friends.
I know little of my father's death. What I do know is that, in life, he was brave, gentle, resolute and had a great sense of humor. He loved me unconditionally. He was my hero.
Greater love has no one than this, but to lay down one's life for One's friends.
I know little of my father's death. What I do know is that, in life, he was brave, gentle, resolute and had a great sense of humor. He loved me unconditionally. He was my hero.
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POSTED ON 3.29.2006
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
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POSTED ON 5.21.2005
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Gary is buried at Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Panama City, Bay Co, FL.
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POSTED ON 4.7.2003
POSTED BY: Kristin Zimmerman
Love lives on forever...
Love lives on forever
in each memory
and thought
Of the special ones
who meant so much
and the happiness
they brought.
Love lives on forever-
it will never fade away-
For, in our hearts,
our loved ones
are with us everyday.
May this poem bring you and your family the peace and comfort that it has continued to give me after the passing of my grandpa. You will always remain in my thoughts for the bravery you portrayed in fighting for our country.
in each memory
and thought
Of the special ones
who meant so much
and the happiness
they brought.
Love lives on forever-
it will never fade away-
For, in our hearts,
our loved ones
are with us everyday.
May this poem bring you and your family the peace and comfort that it has continued to give me after the passing of my grandpa. You will always remain in my thoughts for the bravery you portrayed in fighting for our country.
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