In honor of my Friend

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10 May 2011, 00:43

OLBIKER

In honor of my Friend

JOHN RODNEY SCHURRER

CPL - E4 - Marine Corps - Regular

Length of service 6 years
His tour began on Apr 14, 1968
Casualty was on Jun 18, 1968
In QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered

Panel 56W - Line 28

This song kind of says it all.I miss my Friend.
http://home.comcast.net/~singingman7/TNOTW.htm

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"Policies making areas "gun free" provide a sense of safety to those who engage in magical thinking..." Glenn Harlan Reynolds

11 May 2011, 11:34

Idaho Sharpshooter

We are diminished...

it brings to mind the song "Where have all the flowers gone..."

Rich

11 May 2011, 11:48

TWL

Olbiker:
I never had the honor of meeting your friend, Corporal John. But I miss him also. We all have.
Tom Lorenzen

Rusty
We Band of Brothers!
DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

12 May 2011, 04:47

TCLouis

RIP Marine!

It is best said for those who have been in combat far and near . . .

All gave some

Some gave all.

Thank you one and all the "Rough Men" that do what you do, so I may sleep soundly in my bed safe.

Don't limit your challenges . . .
Challenge your limits

12 May 2011, 13:35

xgrunt

That black cold wall of names burns the heart like nothing else. Yet it soothes the soul. You honor your friend and yourself with your post.