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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 left and what they 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
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- Spc. Dwayne W. Flores, 22, of Sinajana, Guam
- Sgt. Eugene M. Aguon, 23, of Mangilao, Guam
- Pfc. Cody J. Towse, 21, of Elk Ridge, Utah
- Spc. William J. Gilbert, 24, of Hacienda Heights, Calif.
- Spc. Mitchell K. Daehling, 24, of Dalton, Mass.
- Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey C. Baker, 29, of Hesperia, Calif.
- Sgt. 1st Class Trenton L. Rhea, 33, of Oakley, Kan.
- Cpl. David M. Sonka, 23, of Parker, Colo.
- Staff Sgt. Eric D. Christian, 39, of Warwick, N.Y.
- Tech. Sgt. Herman Mackey III, 30, of Bakersfield, Calif.
- Capt. Victoria A. Pinckney, 27, of Palmdale, Calif.
- Capt. Mark T. Voss, 27, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
- Staff Sgt. Daniel N. Fannin, 30, of Morehead, Ky.
- Staff Sgt. Richard A. Dickson, 24, of Rancho Cordova, Calif.
- Capt. Reid K. Nishizuka, 30, of Kailua, Hawaii
- Capt. Brandon L. Cyr, 28, of Woodbridge, Va.
- 1st Lt. Robert J. Hess, 26, of Fairfax, Va.
- Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard, 32, of Selah, Wash.
- Pfc. Barrett L. Austin, 20, of Easley, S.C.
- Spc. Deflin M. Santos Jr., 24, of San Jose, Calif.
- Spc. Wilbel A. Robles-Santa, 25, of Juncos, Puerto Rico
- Staff Sgt. Christopher M. Ward, 24, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Chief Warrant Officer Curtis S. Reagan, 43, of Summerville, S.C.
- Sgt. Michael C. Cable, 26, of Philpot, Ky.
- Sgt. Tristan M. Wade, 23, of Indianapolis, Ind.
- Chief Warrant Officer James E. Groves III, 37, of Kettering, Ohio
- Spc. Zachary L. Shannon, 21, of Dunedin, Fla.
- Staff Sgt. Marc A. Scialdo, 31, of Naples, Fla.
- Capt. Sara M. Knutson, 27, of Eldersburg, Md.
- Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Henderson, 27, of Franklin, La.
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