THE WALL OF FACES

Ralph is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Nashville,TN. BSM-OLC AM PH

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

my uncle ralph was killed in action in vitnam cheating him of life that he deservsd.growing up i heard alot of things about him and i always wished i could of met him.although i know in the day and time he died people in this country protested our involvement in the WAR and it was war not just a conflict they should have atleast understood the long term effect on the brave men that faught and died and or didnt die serving the country that allowed protest and the politicl restraint that actually caused the deaths of so many of our men i think my uncle ralph and every man and every women that died in that far away country were the bravest people in this world

Thank you for your service to our country. May you rest in peace. God bless and keep you.