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Remembrance of Veteran HARRY H. SPENCER 11-20-67 and other Viet Nam Veterans.
PERSONAL: Respect for our veterans current, past, and in the future Please Post in Remembrance.
| 9-2-02
| Anonymous Friend
Posted on 09/02/2002 4:44:59 PM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
This is just a rembrance of a soldier who gave his life so that we could all be free. His (Harry H. Spencer) birthday is coming on Septembr 30, and I would like whoever reads this link, to take a moment of silence for him and all others that have lost their lives remembering that some of these people were just 18 and 19 years old kids. Thank you for Posting.
TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: militaryforces
I don't know if this is what your looking for, but this was a friend of mine, Harry H. Spencer, also Dennis Bowman, only son of his parents, as was Harry the only son of his mother, he was also the son of a fireman killed in action as a fireman. What will happen we can not even anticipate, however, we know what has happened to these young people, and I should think it would not hurt anyone to know that these people are still remember and highly respected and still prayed for by others.
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
In Memory of MAJ Cliff Patterson, KIA 11 Sep 01, Pentagon
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
OK... A memorial... Then here's to the memory of Cpl Floyd Daniels, USMC Retired (1st Bn 9th Marines) who came home without his legs. He became an inspiration to many. And to Cpl David "Beetle" Bailey, 1/9. His fight finally ended Thanksgiving week, 1998. And to all the others who were casualties of that war, whether they came home in a box or otherwise. The ones who grew no older than their 18th or 19th years. The ones whose demons STILL torment them but persevere nonetheless. Here's to Warriors.
Thanks for starting this.
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:52:33 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
To: Neil E. Wright; A Navy Vet; Alas Babylon!; BlackbirdSST
Ping
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:53:57 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
To: 68 grunt; tet68; B4Ranch; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; sneakypete
Ping
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:57:01 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
God bless all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for this country.
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:57:39 PM PDT
by
gunnedah
To: gunnedah
Amen
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:28:02 PM PDT
by
joesnuffy
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
Barry Edward Feldmann
Corporal
1ST BN, 50TH INF RGT, 1 CAV DIV
Army Of The United States
06 April 1946 - 10 December 1967
St Louis, MO
Not forgotten.
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:45:13 PM PDT
by
IncPen
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon; A Simple Soldier; dcwusmc; gunnedah; joesnuffy
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:46:01 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
"This is just a rembrance of a soldier who gave his life so that we could all be free."
And a remberance of all the American boys who were killed or maimed as a result of the US Government sending them half way around the world to defend a corrupt Saigon Government which was created by the CIA, and to fight a war the Vietnamese would not fight.
I love my country but I have nothing but contempt for the US Government........The Government is NOT the country.
MACVJ2/ARVN CMD G2 Advisor '65-'66
I've been hearing this BS about fighting for OUR freedom for more than 35 years. Give me break!
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posted on
09/02/2002 6:26:39 PM PDT
by
Rebelo3
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
Not just a Name
etched on a black granite Wall
A Face
A Life
A Sacrifice
In the spirit of honor and courage
Giving all for our way of life
They leave behind
Memories
Families
Loves
Our Heroes before they left to fight
Our Heroes still
We remember forever theirFaces on the Wall. Search Here
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posted on
09/02/2002 6:29:55 PM PDT
by
Cagey
To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
Vet bump
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posted on
09/02/2002 8:21:26 PM PDT
by
Valin
To: dcwusmc
Delayed WARRIOR Bump! Thanks dc, and all other's who've served our great nation! Blackbird.
To: Rebelo3; BlackbirdSST
You have a good point. Nonetheless, our warriors were magnificent and deserve to be remembered for their efforts. An ungrateful nation and a duplicitous gooberment do not detract from their "last full measure of devotion" to their comrades in battle, for whom most everyone fought, even after realising that their gooberment had no intention of allowing us to win. Would that we had, as a nation, learned THAT lesson from Vietnam...
Had we learned it and its corollary lessons, perhaps we'd have fewer issues to divide us today.
Dave H, bump back to you, warrior!
DC Wright
PhuBai, RVN, '69
USMC
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posted on
09/04/2002 12:54:07 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
To: dcwusmc
I understand, and I salute our warriors; but it was never our war to win or lose. We could still be over there winning battles and running up body counts, but the other side was not going to run out of bodies and they were not going to give up. That was MACVJ2's conclusion in the Fall of '65, and later I read the the CIA had reached the same conclusion a year earlier. I went on some search and destroy operations with ARVN and I saw why those operations were later called search and AVOID.
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posted on
09/05/2002 6:41:36 PM PDT
by
Rebelo3
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