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To: ManyMoose who wrote (293488)	2/22/2009 8:36:03 PM
From: unclewest	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794327

Damn, that is painful news. All we can do is Honor the Fallen...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-U3MIYxqE MM, Thank you for the link. I was deeply touched by the video (moreso the 2nd time I watched it) and will get it posted to our web site. I am reminded of the men who died fighting alongside me in 1969 for 100 yards of worthless earth known at the time as the West Hill of Ben Het Special Forces Camp A-244. I am amazed that the military channel still shows that fight film under the title, "Tank Battle Vietnam." I thought about 3 of my 4 sisters who married men who found their way to service in RVN. And especially Barbara whose husband Bobby was likely to be the last to come home but gave his all just 3 months short of DEROS. Bob was putting in air strikes for an SF Recon team in serious trouble in Laos when he was shot down and killed. Robert Edward Ryan Jr. Killed In Action 30 October 1971 First Lieutenant Robert Edward Ryan Jr. was from Hingham, Massachusetts and born on 5 August 1947. He was 24 and married when he died. 1st Lt. Ryan was a Nail Forward Air Controller assigned to the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron at Nakhon Phanom RTAFB Thailand. He was flying O-2A S/N 67-21439 near Savannakhet in southern Laos when he was hit by ground fire and crashed. His body was recovered and he served 260 days in combat. His name is located at 02W 056 on the Vietnam Memorial. The most difficult moment of my entire 65 years was when I stood in front of my entire family and handed my sister her husband Bobby's coffin flag while saying - "On behalf of the president and the Armed Forces of the United States of America I present you this flag in grateful appreciation for your husband's sacrifice." I have never forgotten those words and hope I never will. Today my sister Jeanne's husband, Charlie, is dying in Atlanta from agent orange related lung disease. Both of their kids are USAFA graduates and both are active duty USAF pilots today. Charlie flew Cobras for USMC. We met in 68 at Ft Benning. I already had 5 years in SF ( 3 overseas, little did I know I had more than 7 more years overseas to go.), just finished OCS and was a jump school instructor. He was in Flight school in Florida and drove up for a long weekend. We served in nam simultaneously but never managed to meet there. Each of us can do more, and there is much to do. First, no matter our past, we can each individually do all in our power to preserve freedom for the children of our Fallen and thereby for our own children. That is a solemn duty we must succeed at. uw