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In Memoriam
Vietnam 1969-1973 Association Home Page Some History	To our brothers who fell in Combat "But we shall be remembered; we few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that shed his blood with me shall be my brother." Shakespeare 17th Special Operations Squadron Major Bernard Knapic Captain John H. Hathaway Major Moses L. Alves Major Jerome J. Rice Staff Sergeant Abraham L. Moore Major Merideth G. Andersen First Lieutenent Thomas L. Lubbers First Lieutenent Charles M. Knowles Master Sergeant Joseph C. Jeszeck Staff Sergeant Robert F. Fage, Jr. Sergeant Michael J. Vangelisti 18th Special Operations Squadron Staff Sergeant Clyde D. Alloway Captain Terence F. Courtney* Captain David Slagle Staff Sergeant Kenneth R. Brown Captain Thomas R. Hamman Sergeant John Rucker * Awarded Air Force Cross posthumously   Vietnam 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 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 gentle moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Major Michael Davis O'Donnell 1 January 1970 Dak To, Vietnam Some History  | The Gunships  | Photos Stories  | AC-119 Cartoons   Lead Crew  | Favorite Links Resources | Association Guestbook  | Feedback Top Copyright©2000-2005, AC-119 Gunship Association All rights reserved	Capt. Terence F. Courtney 18th Special Operations Squadron Awarded Air Force Cross May 12, 1972 AF Cross award criteria