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The Wizard

(12,846 posts)
Sun May 26, 2013, 09:01 AM May 2013

Embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

"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, though you may or may not have always. Take 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.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978

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Embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. (Original Post) The Wizard May 2013 OP
Gone but not forgotten life long demo May 2013 #1
. riverwalker May 2013 #2
... handmade34 May 2013 #3
Amen pinboy3niner May 2013 #4
Absent friends... sarisataka May 2013 #5
And now Memorial Day is over. Whew! pinboy3niner May 2013 #6

life long demo

(1,113 posts)
1. Gone but not forgotten
Sun May 26, 2013, 09:35 AM
May 2013

My friend Buddy Finn who will always be 26.

1Lt. Albert Maurice Finn
Casualty Date: 09/20/1970
Age: 26
Location: Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam
Helicopter Pilot

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
6. And now Memorial Day is over. Whew!
Wed May 29, 2013, 07:11 PM
May 2013

Most people don't understand how that day itself can be a trigger.

Vets here know the anxiety that day brings. And now we made it through another one.

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