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Casualty Info
Home Town Decatur, TN
Last Address Decatur, TN
Casualty Date Feb 15, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Multiple Fragmentation Wounds
Location Tay Ninh (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Decatur Cemetery - Decatur, Tennessee
DOUG SNYDER C2555D@VERIZON.NET
25TH INF BROTHER
NOT FORGOTTEN HERO
43 YEARS HAVE PASSED YET IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY. YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN,HERO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE.
Feb 15, 2011
Manuel Pino Jr mpjr54@msn.com
Fellow Army Vet
MY COUNTRY'S FLAG CRIED the flag bowed it's bars and wept starry tears as it hung at half-mast for a soldier's years. another youth it had called and another youth had died. I stood and i watched as my country's flag cried. it clothed the drab coffin in it's red, white, and blue, silently protecting the contents for the comfort of a few. it brought strength to some, to others, bitter pride. but as mourners filed by, my country's flag cried. as it rode to the field where the soldier was laid away, the flag recalled the pledge that he used to stand and say, but to war he went and to keep that pledge, he tried. as the guns fired their last salute, my country's flag cried. as taps rang out, it was folded with care, for the soldier's soul a chaplin whispered a prayer. he asked god for peace in this world to abide, and in a grieving mother's arms my country's flag cried!
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
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 heros you left behind...."Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'DonnellKIA 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
A debt unpaid
I remember Thomas Davis, he was killed in a place called Trang Bang. Three of his friends were also killed in the ambush. The night before I had asked one of these guys to pick me up a lighter in Tay Ninh. It was on my bunk that night, and they pulled out early the next day, without me knowing which one bought the lighter for me. I think it was Thomas, and I never got to thank him.
