"Jack"
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"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....
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 hero's you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
Casualty Record for John Alexander Nowakowski
GENERAL / PERSONAL
Home Rochester, Michigan
Birth Date 1947-03-02
Sex Male
Race Caucasian
Married/Single Single
Religion Congregational Christian
Citizen Yes
MILITARY
Service Army
Rank SP4
Serial Number 54985557
Component Selective Service
Grade E4
MOS 11B20
Length of Service 00
Start of Tour 1968-11-03
CASUALTY
Casualty Date 1969-03-05
Casualty Type Hostile, Died
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Air or Ground Ground Casualty
Country South Vietnam
Province Hua Nghia
Posthumous Promotion No change
Body Recovered Body recovered
Location on The Wall Panel 30W - Row 048
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"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....
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 hero's you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
Casualty Record for John Alexander Nowakowski
GENERAL / PERSONAL
Home Rochester, Michigan
Birth Date 1947-03-02
Sex Male
Race Caucasian
Married/Single Single
Religion Congregational Christian
Citizen Yes
MILITARY
Service Army
Rank SP4
Serial Number 54985557
Component Selective Service
Grade E4
MOS 11B20
Length of Service 00
Start of Tour 1968-11-03
CASUALTY
Casualty Date 1969-03-05
Casualty Type Hostile, Died
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Air or Ground Ground Casualty
Country South Vietnam
Province Hua Nghia
Posthumous Promotion No change
Body Recovered Body recovered
Location on The Wall Panel 30W - Row 048
"Jack"
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"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....
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 hero's you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
Casualty Record for John Alexander Nowakowski
GENERAL / PERSONAL
Home Rochester, Michigan
Birth Date 1947-03-02
Sex Male
Race Caucasian
Married/Single Single
Religion Congregational Christian
Citizen Yes
MILITARY
Service Army
Rank SP4
Serial Number 54985557
Component Selective Service
Grade E4
MOS 11B20
Length of Service 00
Start of Tour 1968-11-03
CASUALTY
Casualty Date 1969-03-05
Casualty Type Hostile, Died
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Air or Ground Ground Casualty
Country South Vietnam
Province Hua Nghia
Posthumous Promotion No change
Body Recovered Body recovered
Location on The Wall Panel 30W - Row 048
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"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....
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 hero's you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
Casualty Record for John Alexander Nowakowski
GENERAL / PERSONAL
Home Rochester, Michigan
Birth Date 1947-03-02
Sex Male
Race Caucasian
Married/Single Single
Religion Congregational Christian
Citizen Yes
MILITARY
Service Army
Rank SP4
Serial Number 54985557
Component Selective Service
Grade E4
MOS 11B20
Length of Service 00
Start of Tour 1968-11-03
CASUALTY
Casualty Date 1969-03-05
Casualty Type Hostile, Died
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Air or Ground Ground Casualty
Country South Vietnam
Province Hua Nghia
Posthumous Promotion No change
Body Recovered Body recovered
Location on The Wall Panel 30W - Row 048
Inscription
MICHIGAN
SP4 CO A 5 INF 25 INF DIV
VIETNAM
BSM ARCOM PH W/OLC
