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TO THE VETERANS OF ALL WARS:

WELCOME HOME

 

~ TO OUR MISSING ~

WE WILL STAND OUR VIGIL UNTIL
YOU ARE ALL BACK HOME WITH US

Candle burning to light the way home for our missing

Poppy  WE WILL REMEMBER THEM  Poppy

The contents of this page come from my old grizz.ca site. The grizz site covered "all wars", a portion of which was dedicated to the Vietnam War Era as many of my friends and family served there. My brother and several friends were killed there. Others came home leaving a big part of themselves back there.

This is my memorial page for those who never came home, the missing and those confirmed dead but no body was recovered. Family members and communities are still waiting for their loved ones.

I will be adding links to some Canadian Organizations involved in the POW*MIA issues and the investigations on the 7 Canadians still missing; along with material related to PTSD, Agent Orange and the associated disorders incurred from exposure at a later date.

Charlie Stevens - Webmaster

 

 

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall    

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

 

 

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.

This poem written by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell, on January 1, 1970 in Dak To 2 months before his death. Major O'Donnell was a helicopter commander with the 170th Aviation Company, 17th Aviation Group, 52nd Aviation Batallion, 1st Aviation Brigade. He and his crew were shot down on 24 March, 1970 while performing an extraction operation.

Major O'Donnell's remains were never found.
Read his case synopsis here

 

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MY AMERICAN POW*MIA'S
Click on a bracelet for the case synopsis

Patrick R. Curran
Eugene L. Wheeler

...A hero comes home...
I have worn Patrick R. Curran's
bracelet for several years. Now his
tour is complete and he is back home.

 

...My adopted POW*MIA...
Eugene Lacy Wheeler

 

Canadian born

 

POW MIA's

 
Lcpl Jonathon P. Kmetyk
USMC / 14NOV67 / NY

 

 

Task Force Omega. POW*MIA Information Centre
Support our POW*MIA's
Task Force Omega, Inc.
Glendale, Az. USA

 
Other War Heroes_K9 Scouts

  Click this image to go to my
  War Dog Dedication page

 

 


WHAT IS A VETERAN?

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a look in the eye. Others carry the evidence inside of them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept our nation safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet by just looking.

What is a Veteran?

  • He is a cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armoured personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

  • He is the bar room loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales of four hours of exquisite bravery near the 39th parallel.

  • She or he is a nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

  • He is the P.O.W. who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back at all.

  • He is the drill instructor who has never seen combat - but who has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into soldiers and teaching them to watch each others' back.

  • He is the paraded riding legionnaire who pins ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

  • He is a career Quartermaster who watches ribbons and medals pass him by.

  • He is the three anonymous heroes in the tomb of the unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all anonymous heroes whose valour died unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

  • He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

  • He is the ordinary and yet extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

  • He is a soldier and a saviour and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest testimony on the behalf of our Nation.


So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "Thank you". That's all most of these people need and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot:

"THANK YOU"

 
 

 

Remember Our Disabled Veterans

Graphic by Doc.
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