HONORED ON PANEL 32W, LINE 52 OF THE WALL
JAMES VINCENT CAVANAUGH
WALL NAME
JAMES V CAVANAUGH
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32W/52
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LEFT FOR JAMES VINCENT CAVANAUGH
POSTED ON 11.26.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
James is buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence,RI. BSM PH
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POSTED ON 1.6.2006
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 11.30.2003
POSTED BY: Ben Droitcour
Request
I'm Ben Droitcour and am a student at Bishop Hendricken High School. If anyone has information on James "Jimmy" Cavanaugh, please contact me.
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POSTED ON 6.5.2002
POSTED BY: Rich P.
Close to home
It hits close to home hearing your story, knowing that I am like you in many ways. You went to Shea High School, I go to Burrillville High School. You worked at a braid company, I work at an apple business. You dreamed of being a doctor, I have my own dreams too. The difference is that you were drafted into a vicious war and were taken from this world abruptly. I appreciate you bravery in defending this great country and I appreciate the chance I have been given.
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