An American Rifleman in Iraq

If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and 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 always have.Take what the have left and what they have taught you with thier dying and keep it with your own.

  And in time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind

Major Michael Davis O’Donnell

  Dak To, South Vietnam