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satyr 
Posts: 4388
Raleigh, NC
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| 08 Jul 2008 8:41 AM |
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I would like to offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Vietnam veteran, Donald Mitchell Jackson Sr. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Thank you for standing for our country and defending our freedom Donald. Rest in peace soldier. I salute you.
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satyr
Steve Roma
USAF 1976 - 1980, TAC
Dry Hill AFS, Watertown, NY
Finland AFS, Finland, MN
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
- Moina Micheals - 1918
"We Shall Keep the Faith"
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aoop
Posts: 2550
Vidor, Orange County, TX
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| 08 Jul 2008 9:38 AM |
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| Thank You Soldier. |
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James M. Richards
Vidor,TX
US Navy 1969-1972 Damage Control
jmrichards@aoop.net http://www.myspace.com/stoneagegeek
Travel in Memory of: Pvt Clinton Victor Richards, (Uncle) WWI, USA, KIA, GySgt Joseph B. Richards ,USMC, (Father) WWII, Deceased, SSgt Leroy Richards, USMC, (Uncle) WWII, Deceased, Pvt Dewitt E. Rabalais, USMC, Father in Law, Deceased, Col Gilbert Meibaum, USMC, VN, AO, SN Larry Slaymaker, USN, VN, KIA and each and every Brother and Sister who has worn the uniform and lifted their right hand to make the Promise to willingly die if need be to defend the freedoms of our Citizens and the innocents abroad.
A Mother asked President Bush, "Why did my Child have to die in Iraq?" Another Mother asked President Kennedy,"Why did my Child have to die in Vietnam?" Another Mother asked President Truman, "Why did my Child have to die in Korea?" Another Mother asked President F.D. Roosevelt,"Why did my Child have to die at Iwo Jima ?" Another Mother asked President W. Wilson, "Why did my Child have to die on the battlefield of France ?" Yet another Mother asked President Lincoln,"Why did my Child have to die at Gettysburg ?" And yet another Mother asked President G.Washington, "Why did my Child have to die near Valley Forge?" Long, long ago a Mother (Mary) asked, "Heavenly Father, why did my Child have to die on a cross outside Jerusalim?" All the answers are so near the same. One died to save our Souls and the others died to protect our Freedoms. |
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RDWinters
Posts: 667
Wilson,NC
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| 08 Jul 2008 12:12 PM |
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| Our sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of Donald Mitchell Jackson Sr.. May God bring you comfort and peace. Our thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time. Thank you Donald for your courage, dedication and sacrifices. Thank you for standing guard for our freedoms and those of others around the world. May God Bless you. Rest easy Brother. |
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"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
De Oppresso Liber
R.D. and Kay Winters
U.S. Army (Ret) 1978-1998
Special Forces Assn Decade
American Legion
VFW
PGR
Blue Knights NC IX
www.myspace.com/kaynrick_hd
In Memory of:
L/Cpl Ronald Wayne Shields, P-39E/L-21, SVN, 13 Feb 68 (Uncle)
SFC Jonathan Tessar, Iraqi Freedom, 31 Oct 05 (Teammate, Friend, Brother)
James Kenneth Sinclair, Veteran, Motorcycle Accident, 16 Apr 04 (Kay's Dad)
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt
Paris, France
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jamie48
Posts: 3
waynesboro, ms
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| 09 Jul 2008 11:51 AM |
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rest "curley" - my fellow 101st airborne brother.
The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Children Is To Love Their Mother & Father!
US Army Retired, CW4 Marine Engineer. SAIL ARMY!
For those who fought for it, freedom is something the protected will never know.
Among veterans, the VA is known as the second chance to die for your country.
See me Christmas 68, 1/327 101st Airborne, Camp Eagle, Vietnam, 11B 1duck2many
[www.327infantry.org]
Combat Veterans Motorcycle Assn. ID: 2264
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Life is too short for drama and petty things,
so Kiss slowly, Laugh insanely,
Love truly, and Forgive quickly.
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gumijagr
Posts: 1745
Covina, California
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| 10 Jul 2008 12:12 AM |
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| Thank You Donald Mitchell Jackson SR. our prayers are with the family and friends of this Hero |
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Riding in Honor of my Brother John: 2nd Marine Division, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit out of Camp LeJune, North Carolina over a year in Beruit Lebanon during the October 23rd, 1983 attack. Also in Memory of my Father: WWll Veteran Navy Phillipines |
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Streaker
Posts: 860
In Memory of Oldiron
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| 10 Jul 2008 1:33 PM |
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Thanks to all who attended this mission. You honored Donald Jackson and his family with your prayers and your presence. Ride safe..........
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Doug Smith
Deputy State Captain-East Texas Area
Palestine, Texas USA
Riding for my dad, WW II P.O.W., and for the Kenyon, R.Garcia, Durbin, Forbis, Cox, Priest, Duerksen, Fry, Moss, Shannon, Latimer, Worrel, A. Garcia, Meeks, Pratt, Duggan, Jones, Clements, Pugh, Caban, Rios, Lloyd, Shaffer, Eason, Mintzlaff, Neal, Jaynes, Sanders, Buford, Yates, Williams, Bishop, Brooks, Biggs, Barrett, Mollard, Goree, Sandel, Roberts, Knight, Knowles, Pickard and Wright families, and proud to being doing so.
"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
"If I had known what these people were going to do, I would never have surrendered." - General Robert E. Lee |
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Peanutwhistle
Posts: 6
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| 25 Jul 2008 12:46 PM |
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| July 4 2008, Vietnam veteran Donald M. Jackson was riding 2 bikes ahead of me on a leisure outing, watching out for his grandson riding right in front of him. We had just left a rest stop about a mile back when an oncoming mc came right into our lane, hitting Donald headon. As we prepared to leave that rest stop I looked at "Vietnam 69-70" embroideried on the back of Donald's vest and thought to myself, 'at our next stop I'm going to give him a big hug and say 'Thank You Soldier', now I can only wish I had noticed that earlier. We had a great many PGR, Vets, independents, and our church family on bikes lead the procession from the funeral home to Donald's final resting place, just across the street from his home.
To Lea, Bo, Dakota, and the many other family members I want you all to know I was blessed to have met Donald just a few short weeks before your terrible loss, rather our terrible loss. I lost something too, I didn't get the time I would liked to have had getting to know Donald better, growing in our faith, sharing stories of the kids and grandkids, riding together now and then. I was blessed and all of you were blessed to have such fine man as a husband, father, grandfather, and friend. As I ride I'll be riding in honor of Donald, whether on a PGR mission, a church group ride, or just down some lonesome road just me and him. I'll still get to give him that hug. but it'll be so much more glorious than by the gas pump at a convience store that day. |
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Riding in memory of TSgt. Travis E. Layfield, uncle (deceased) 20 years USAF SAC, Uncles...Lavell Merritt Army WWII, Holman Merritt (deceased) Army WWII, Hobert Merritt (deceased) Army WWII, Friend Jakey Walker KIA Vietnam, Lt. Col. Eugene D. Hamilton MIA 1966-2005, Donald M. Jackson Vietnam 69-70 mc fatality as we rode July 4th. 2008.
Servants of Christ mm
Huntington, Tx.
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