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Johnson, Walter Boyce, PFC.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Des Moines
Last Address Des Moines
Casualty Date Jan 25, 1966
Cause Non Hostile- Died while Missing
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Vietnam, South (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Marietta National Cemetery (VA) - Marietta, Georgia
Michael McCarty YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN !
Fellow veteran
SGT E-5 7th Infantry d.m.z Korea 68/69.
'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables' from Les Miserables
Oh my friends , my friends forgive me that I live and you are gone. There's a grief that can't be spoken there's a pain goes on and on Phantom faces at the window. Phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs at empty tables where my friends will meet no more. Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me what your sacrifice was for. Empty chairs at empty tables where my friends will sing no more...
Jan 25, 2010
David Gibson Just2toonice@aol.com
Friend...
Forever Young..
Walt... I think you were my buddy in Northern Japan at Misawa AFB... Always remembered... I served in Nam 68-69-70 Sorry we could not all make it back..
Jul 30, 2009
Manuel Pino Jr Bco 2/8th 1st Cav 68-69 mpjr54@msn.com
Fellow Cav Brother
"They grow not old, as we who remain grow old, age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them. We shall remember them."
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Jackie Taylor
~Grateful American~
USA
You, Sir, Have Not Been Forgotten!
I had the opportunity to visit The Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington DC. As I searched and, found the names of my friends, classmates, neighbors etched into the smooth, black face of the Wall, an extraordinary outpouring of emotion became so strong. I was so overwhelmed with sorrow and pain that I could not hold back the tears for those heroes and their families who lost so much. Though my visit to the Wall was a few years ago, I feel that I left a piece of my heart there. To honor those who died in the Vietnam War and to say thank youàI created a small tribute to those heroes. Please click on the link above to view memorial website.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
mark kapinos schmur705@yahoo.com
rest well my cav brother
Friday, July 04, 2003
We Remember
Walter is buried at Marietta National Cemetery
Posted by: Robert Sage Email: rsage@austin.rr.com Relationship: Monday, January 9, 2012
"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
Posted by: Bill Nelson Email: grite@yahoo.com Relationship: NamVet 2/502 Inf 101 Abn 69-70 Thursday, October 20, 2005
