Sgt. Harold Burton “Buddy” Reed
“B” Company, 1/35 Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division
Army

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SGT Reed was a great Soldier. SGT Reed was a Fire Team Leader in the 3d Rifle Squad, 3d Platoon, Co B, lst Bn, 35th Inf, 3d Bde, 25th Inf Div. I was SGT Reeds’ Squad Leader. SGT Reed was Killed In Action, in the Ia Drang Valley (Pleiku Province) on that fateful day of 3 July l966.

SGT Reed will never be forgotten and is sadly missed, by me.
—from Alonzo Jones

CPT. Everett D Keaton
6/31st 9th Inf. Div.
Army

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Many years have passed, yet it seems like only yesterday we stood at the airport and watched your plane take to the sky. Little did any of we kids know that it would be the last time we would see you. But we didn’t know, so watched that plane until we couldn’t see it any longer.

We got in the car and Mom drove us all home. To us it was just like the times before, you would go away, Mom would write letters, and you would come home and we would go to the next post. That didn’t happen though. You never came back and all of us had to learn a new normal.

I don’t believe we have figured that out yet. There is still this unspoken gap in all our lives. We do things, we have moments and milestones and we want to share them with you. We wonder what it would be like if you were here. There just always seems to be a someone missing. That someone is you.

Your space is there…empty…and always waiting.

Major Ray Pendergraft
VMFA-542
Marines

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Dad,

We will always honor your memory for who you were as a Father, Husband, Son, Brother, and Friend. We are your living legacy and will continue to pass on your legacy to our children.

SSgt. David Paul Spears
B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 9th Artillery, 25th Infantry Division
Army

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You will forever be remembered in the hearts of your wife, daughter and granddaughters with love and pride.

SP4 Joel Daniel Coleman
First Cavalry Division, 2nd/7th
Army

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You will forever be remembered in the hearts of your wife, daughter and granddaughters with love and pride.

Lt. Col. Michael E. Styer
8th TAC, Satan’s Angels, Bushmasters
Air Force

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Thread of time, moments of memory frozen then remembered.

An expression, emotion, a pattern of movement and it quickens my heart.

A fragrance in the air, sound carried upon a breeze and memories arise from where they’ve been stored.

A fragment of remembrance in a son or daughter’s movement, the laughter of a grandchild.

A moment susupended, a journey back in the blink of time and then forward again in a new memory.

A blending of past and new lives, the undendeing circle of family and heritage.

The confirmation that those we’ve loved left pieces in us, around us.

And my heart took pictures and I remember.

Now my soul rejoices and once again you live.