My own lasting memories of Edmond J. Landers are as a young boy of twelve years. I can remember watching him in the living room of my grandmothers house polishing his army shoes, as soldiers do, with spit and polish, and pressing his uniforms.

He was a true soldier, a paratrooper, serving in one of the U.S. Armies elite airborne units, the 101st Airborne Division, "The Screaming Eagles".

Before leaving for Vietnam in February 1968, he gave me the peaked cap of his Officer's Green Uniform. On it was a large golden eagle, the symbol of a commissioned officer in the United States Army. This particular item was something that both he and I knew I would have given anything to get possession of.

His last words to me before he left were "look after this for me until I come home". Unfortunately, he never did return home again, alive.

Walter S. O'Shea.
May 1999.

"However horrible the incidents of war may be; the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind"

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, USMA, Westpoint NY, 12 May, 1962.

The wall that heals, a half size replica of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C. which visited the four provinces of Ireland from April 16 to May 3, 1999, honoured the sacrifices made by 16 Irish born citizens and over 4,500 Irish Americans, who lost their lives while serving with the U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam (1965 to 1975).

Edmond J. Landers, from Oola, Co. Limerick, just five miles from Tipperary town, was one of the 16 Irishmen honoured. Born in the village of Oola on July 7, 1937, he