"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for 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 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 O'Donnell, January 1, 1970, Dak To, Vietnam.
Major O'Donnell was a helicopter Pilot and went Missing In Action a few months later on March 24, 1970, during a rescue attempt.
His remains were returned in 1995 and identified in 2001.
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My DAD!
PFC Ross J. Henshaw
29 May 1933 - 22 September 2006
Being the youngest of five kids you might think I missed out on some attention from my parents. Well not for me, I was soooo lucky to have been the only kid still at home when my Dad was working off-shifts at Kodak. That meant that I had him all to myself for at least a few hours every day. Not a day has gone by in my adulthood that I don't think about those days and how I wanted to be just like him. I was so proud that he was in the Army and he is proud of that too. That was something I always knew I wanted to do, because of him. As fate would have it, without any knowledge of the date he entered the Service, I ended up joining on the same month and day. So here is my Dad ready to leave Ft. MacArthur, California, after being discharged. He is holding up his discharge papers in the picture. He is not well today and I am writing this at his bedside. Cancer is taking him from us and his time is limited right now. Here's to my Dad, just another regular Joe who served his Country well and inspired me to follow his example.
Well the cancer has completed it's horrid mission. My Dad passed away last evening. God speed Dad, I miss you and will see you when the Lord sees fit for us to reunite.
This morning I have discovered some things that connect us in ways that I cannot explain. As I go over my Fathers Discharge papers I am finding things that some may call coincidence, but I think not.
Dad entered the Army on 16 March 1953 - I joined the Army on 16 March 1985
Both of us were PFCs at time of discharge
Both of us were assigned to Air Defense Units
Both of us were in B Battery of our Units
His Battalion was the 551st and mine was the 155th
Here I am 32 years later with my Discharge papers. This one was planned even before I entered the Army, I had my buddy come down with me so I could have a picture like my Dad's.( He was a much snappier dresser than I was!)
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