LUIS A COLON
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HONORED ON PANEL 41E, LINE 7 OF THE WALL

LUIS ANGEL COLON

WALL NAME

LUIS A COLON

PANEL / LINE

41E/7

DATE OF BIRTH

11/01/1948

CASUALTY PROVINCE

THUA THIEN

DATE OF CASUALTY

02/24/1968

HOME OF RECORD

NEW YORK

COUNTY OF RECORD

New York City

STATE

NY

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

PFC

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR LUIS ANGEL COLON
POSTED ON 5.22.2008
POSTED BY: John Farrell CoB 1/502 101st Airborne

All the Way, Airborne

We were on the subway, heading home from jump school, right before Christmas, 1967 on a 30 day leave. We both had orders for 90 replacement Vietnam.You looked perfect in your dress uniform. We were so proud.We both went to the 101st.I remember when you got hit, I was sure you would make it, but God took you. I live in Florida now, but whenever I go back to NYC I go to the Memorial down by battery park & touch your name on the wall.You and our other fallen brothers are alive in my heart always.
Peace
John
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POSTED ON 8.24.2007
POSTED BY: Dale Hansen

Brother Eagles

Brother Luis, you have met your “Rendezvous with Destiny”! We will never forget the sacrifice you made.

No Slack!
Your 327th Brothers http://screamingeagles-327thvietnam.com





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POSTED ON 1.5.2006
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

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POSTED ON 2.24.2004
POSTED BY: Kaitlyn Paxton

A New Point Of View

Recognizing some Vietnam War Veterans was an assignment given to me by my one of my teachers and is called the Gridley High School Posting Project. I am a senior at Gridley High School in Gridley, Illinois. I thought this would be an effective assignment that my classmates and I have taken to heart and are completing our assignment and continuing to remember these brave soldiers even after the requirements are met. After receiving e-mails back from family members, friends, and acquaintances, I, personally, have taken a whole new perspective to this project. I think we, as a student body, are creating and interest and proving that we can be mature adults who realize what these men/women did for our country. I know that I for one am truly grateful for these people. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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