Remains ID'd of Four Missing in Vietnam ( Heroes come Home)

Yahoo! ^ | 2/14/06 | Associated Press

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Welcome Home at long last.

Your families' long wait is over.

[Ohioan from Florida]

I am so sorry that your hero brother was treated like that upon his return. That was shameful. Although I was a child during the Vietnam era, I had complete respect and awe for what our men did. How anyone cannot be proud of their service to our country is beyond me.

[chesty_puller]

There but for the grace of God..........

[vigilante2]

You said it all Tonk

Thanks for the ping

[Chode]

Welcome Home... RIP... God Bless.



Capt. Morgan J Donahue USAF, MIA 12-13-68 Laos

Gone but NOT Forgotten.

[Colt .45]

LEST WE FORGET!

If you are able,
save 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 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
enough to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
January 1, 1970
MISSING IN ACTION - 24 March 1970
DAK TO, VIETNAM

WELCOME HOME MY BROTHERS!

[timydnuc]

The politicians left them behind, the men that served never would have.

101st Airborne Ranger, Republic of South Vietnam, 1967/1968. We don't leave men behind, dead or alive. The cowards in Washington lost that war after we won it.

These brave men have been resting in the arms of the Lord for sometime. Let the Lord judge those butt cracks in Washington that gave up on the Vietnamese people. I know where my comrades are.

[auboy]

Welcome Home bump.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I turned eighteen just as the draft ended. I didn't volunteer...not caught up, mind you, but listened to the anti war rhetoric.....much of which was propogated by mass media. We didn't have cable, or internet at that time, just the abc networks.

In retrospect, I feel I would have not only made a good soldier, but, might have made it a career.

Aside from the fact that I let my country down...I know I let myself down.

You have all my respect.

I have not earned the right to salute you. I will place my hand over my heart....I thank all of you constantly....and my tears flow, when heros come home as these did.