Madelyn Robertson
robertson494@yahoo.com
Friend
USA
Jack:
As I turned around
We had just graduated High School
As I turned around
You were my friend to see
As I turned around
You were called to fight
I turned again and you were gone
It will be 40 years ago that you were called away
It was time for you to go
It was time for me to stay
When I am called away
I hope that when I turn around again it will be
you I see
I hope that when you turn and look you will recognize me.
May 2, 2007 |
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Madelyn robertson
Robertson494@Yahoo.com
friend, schoolmate
Jack (as we all called you)became a citizen and gave your life for a country you were not even born in. I am writing this because you were taken like too many, too soon.You were a good friend in school. You did not have the chance become that great scoccer player. You were so good at that game, but God had other plans. You will be 60 years old on September 1, 2006. A lifetime ago and in a war that was in a country I barely heard of. I often wonder what life would have given to you had you returned. I can only look back and wonder. It is so hard to believe that you will be 60. We never had any thoughts of life being cut so short at age 20. Happy 60! I know you have found peace because you, like so many had spent your time in hell! You will always be forever young and always in my heart. May God keep you ever close........madelyn
Aug 28, 2006 |
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Manuel Arcencio
arcencio@mail.telepac.pt
Portugal
Joaquim Rebelo was born in Murtosa, Portugal. We remember him. We remembr others that died in the IIWW, Vietnam, Coreia, and many other wars for freedom of mankind. Semper Fi!
Sunday, December 20, 1998 |
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Madelyn Robertson
Robertson494@Yahoo.com
Schoolmate
494 Hickory Street
Kearny, NJ 07032 USA
In going thru the list of names on the wall I came across Joaquim Vaz Rebelo. We lived in Newark, NJ and went to Wilson Avenue Grammar from which we both graduated and also went onto East Side High School in Newark.We always called him Jack. That was a life time ago. I also found another of our schoolmates on the wall. The 60's in this country were a turmoil. I can only say that when Joaquim (Jack) was taken from us on that fateful day, that he went straight to heaven, because he had spent his time in Hell!
Sunday, October 23, 2005 |
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