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Casualty Info
Home Town New York, NY
Last Address New York, NY
Casualty Date Feb 11, 1969
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes
Reason Accidental Self-Destruction
Location Gia Dinh (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Long Island National Cemetery (VA) - Farmingdale, New York
David Regenthal dregenthal@comcast.net
fellow veteran/served with
Fort Myers Beach, FL., USA
Never Forgotten
Not a Memorial Day, or Veteran's Day, (indeed, hardly any day) goes by, when I don't, think of you. I think about, how much you taught us, about the job and about life. I remember how, it was back, then and often wonder, how, it might have been, for/between us, today. I'm thinking it, would have been, well. I will never, forget you, brother, always miss you and look ahead, to the time, when we're all together, again. Go with God . . . Love, Reg
May 21, 2009
Manuel Pino B/2/8th Cav 68-69 mpjr54@msn.com
Fellow Vietnam Army Vet
F/75th Inf Rgt, 25th Inf Div
NOW SLEEP Peace has come. Now you can truly sleep,my son. The muddy field where you were laid Flag-draped, will now be green. Redbud and cherry blossoms can be seen Soon in bloom above your head. Arlington's Eternal Flame Flickers across granite rows To illuminate your name And then beneath it (with lightning's calm) Strikes in black the word VIETNAM On your own stone. Peace has come. Your medals may turn green In time, like your beret But forever there are those who'll say, "I live because he cared he came!"
Oct 23, 2007
Jackie Taylor jlprewitt@hotmail.com
Not Related, Just Remembering You
Thank you, Duane, for going long ago, Thanks, for securing, this blessed life, I know. Thanks, for fighting to keep us, free. Thanks, for saving the future, for me. You were, so young and far away, from home. I'am sorry and so sad, that you did, not make it, back. Rest In Peace, Hero, You Have Not, Been Forgotten.
Saturday, June 02, 2001
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
Posted by: Bill Nelson Email: grite@yahoo.com Relationship: NamVet 2/502 Inf 101 Abn 69-70 Monday, January 9, 2006
