vetsms9
08-01-2005, 09:20 PM
Humbly Presented
29 POW/MIA's from North Carolina are Still Unaccounted for in SE ASIA.
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 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 heroes
you left behind
Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January, 1970
DakTo, Vietnam
Robert Dougles Avery, Morganton, N.C.
Murray Lyman Borden, Goldsboro, N.C.
Wilbur Ronald Brown, Wilmington, N.C.
James Edward Butler, Buies Creek, N.C.
Fred Lee Clarke, Troutman, N.C.
Glen Richard Cook, Charlotte, N.C.
Andrew Johnson Craven, Wilmington,N.C.
Andrew Garrett Gardner, Hot Springs, N.C.
John Hunter Crews III, Asheville, N.C.
Frederick Lewis Cristman, Salisbury, N.C.
Edgar Felton Davis, Goldsboro, N.C
Robin Frederie Gatwood, Jr. Hickory, N.C.
Fredrick Mervyn Hall, Waynesville, N.C.
Joseph N. Hargrove, Mount Olive, N.C.
Carter Avery Howell, Fayettville, N.C.
Larry Carl Jamerson, Rosman, N.C.
William Darrell Johnson, Rocky Mount, N.C.
James Martin Luttrell, Fayetteville, N.C.
Charles Worth Millard, Wilson, N.C.
Jerry Lawrence Moore, Cleveland, N.C.
Edwin Everton Morgan, Salisbury, N.C.
Larry Kane Morrow, Lowell, N.C.
Dennis William Omelia, Smithfield, N.C.
Edwin David Palmgren, Winston Salem, N.C.
Bunyan Durant Price Jr., Belmont, N.C.
Donald Monroe Shue, Kannapolis, N.C.
James Randell Williams, Charlotte, N.C.
Jimmy Lee Watson, Lucama, N.C.
Wayne Vaster Wilson, Thomasville, N.C.
29 POW/MIA's from North Carolina are Still Unaccounted for in SE ASIA.
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 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 heroes
you left behind
Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January, 1970
DakTo, Vietnam
Robert Dougles Avery, Morganton, N.C.
Murray Lyman Borden, Goldsboro, N.C.
Wilbur Ronald Brown, Wilmington, N.C.
James Edward Butler, Buies Creek, N.C.
Fred Lee Clarke, Troutman, N.C.
Glen Richard Cook, Charlotte, N.C.
Andrew Johnson Craven, Wilmington,N.C.
Andrew Garrett Gardner, Hot Springs, N.C.
John Hunter Crews III, Asheville, N.C.
Frederick Lewis Cristman, Salisbury, N.C.
Edgar Felton Davis, Goldsboro, N.C
Robin Frederie Gatwood, Jr. Hickory, N.C.
Fredrick Mervyn Hall, Waynesville, N.C.
Joseph N. Hargrove, Mount Olive, N.C.
Carter Avery Howell, Fayettville, N.C.
Larry Carl Jamerson, Rosman, N.C.
William Darrell Johnson, Rocky Mount, N.C.
James Martin Luttrell, Fayetteville, N.C.
Charles Worth Millard, Wilson, N.C.
Jerry Lawrence Moore, Cleveland, N.C.
Edwin Everton Morgan, Salisbury, N.C.
Larry Kane Morrow, Lowell, N.C.
Dennis William Omelia, Smithfield, N.C.
Edwin David Palmgren, Winston Salem, N.C.
Bunyan Durant Price Jr., Belmont, N.C.
Donald Monroe Shue, Kannapolis, N.C.
James Randell Williams, Charlotte, N.C.
Jimmy Lee Watson, Lucama, N.C.
Wayne Vaster Wilson, Thomasville, N.C.