DAVID MICHAEL ANDERSON
DAVID M ANDERSON
37E/77
REMEMBRANCES
Remembering An American Hero
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
A boot camp friend that I wish I could talk with, again.
He and I got along good. We were in plt. 389, Parris Island S.C.,(20 June to 25 August 1967) We were both from Fla. We were put on the same details during our week of 'mess and police'. That's where I got to know David.
He told me of this great, happy, time he had on a job of erecting power transmission towers on some island somewhere, and the girl he met.
When we left P. I., he headed for the infantry and I headed for electronics school . That was the last time I saw him. He headed straight to vietnam, with about 30 others in our boot plt. I didn't know he was killed until I was in a bed of a dump truck,hitching a ride back to my unit outside of Danang Vietnam, and a guy named Hurd, from our boot plt. recognized me and told me about David being killed.
To any one that may be related to David, I want you to know that he was a good guy, and I miss him.
We Remember
Never Forgotten
"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 heros 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 heros 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