Vietnam War Memorial, Heritage Park, Junction City, KS, USA
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N 39° 01.657 W 096° 49.793
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Kansas State Vietnam War memorial. This memorial bears the names of 753 Kansans killed in action in Vietnam and the names of 38 Kansans who were still missing in action in 1987 when the memorial was dedicated.
Waymark Code: WM7PQ5
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2009
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KANSAS STATE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL
DEDICATED JULY 4, 1987
DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO GAVE THE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR THEIR COUNTRY
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TO THESE MEN AND ALL MEN WHO DIED
IN OTHER WARS, THIS IS THEIR TRIBUTE...
HISTORY WILL REMEMBER THE WAR.
WILL AMERICA REMEMBER HER MEN?
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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 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.
Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
Major Davis, a US Army helicopter pilot, was shot down over Cambodia, March 24, 1970. He remains MIA. http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/o/o021.htm
Date Placed: 07/04/1987
Placed by:: Not listed
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