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HONORED ON PANEL 25E, LINE 95 OF THE WALL
VINCENT ROBERT CAPODANNO
WALL NAME
VINCENT R CAPODANNO
PANEL / LINE
25E/95
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
RANK
REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR VINCENT ROBERT CAPODANNO
POSTED ON 2.5.2009
POSTED BY: Wayne Brandon
Always will remember
Father, To this day I think of you each and every day!!
POSTED ON 12.17.2007
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
Marine Corps League Magazine - Autumn 2001 - Vol. 57, No.3
Article was "Two Canteens and a Bible---the Chaplain's Legacy.
Caption for photo was: "In Vietnam, Chaplain Vincent R. Capodanno, shown conducting a field prayer service, was killed in action in 1967.
Archival prints for the article were credited to: Marine Corps University.
SEMPER FIDELIS, FATHER!
POSTED ON 11.12.2007
POSTED BY: Joan Mosko
POSTED ON 5.9.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson
NEVER FORGOTTEN
Dear Father Capodanno,
You died administering last rights to your fallen fellow Marines. A plack in your honor has been placed at the New York City Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
We will always remember your heroic acts.
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,Father Capodanno, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
May the LORD bless you and hold you in his arms... and rest forever in the Peace of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Brothers
You died administering last rights to your fallen fellow Marines. A plack in your honor has been placed at the New York City Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
We will always remember your heroic acts.
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,Father Capodanno, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
May the LORD bless you and hold you in his arms... and rest forever in the Peace of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Brothers