HONORED ON PANEL 3E, LINE 73 OF THE WALL
CHARLES ALLEN COLLINS
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CHARLES A COLLINS
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POSTED ON 12.11.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson: Nam Vet 101st Airborne
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 and patriots 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 and patriots 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 1.15.2004
POSTED BY: Rachel A. Limberg
Thank You!
"All day long he was fighting for you and he didn't even know your name. Young men come and young men go, but life goes on just the same. And I don't know why..." This is a song by Phil Collins and whenever I hear it I will think of all of you soldiers who lost everything to give people like me freedom!
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POSTED ON 3.19.2003
POSTED BY: T.J. Collins
Thanks
Although I’ve never met you and we have never talked I can only imagine what you gave
up to fight for our country in the Vietnam War. The sacrifices must have been great and
I’m sure you missed your family. For this I would like to thank you from the bottom of
my heart.
Thanks again
T.j. Collins
up to fight for our country in the Vietnam War. The sacrifices must have been great and
I’m sure you missed your family. For this I would like to thank you from the bottom of
my heart.
Thanks again
T.j. Collins
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