SP4 LEONARD LEE POTTS

LEONARD LEE POTTS

Garnet Jenkins
garijen@bresnan.net
Grand Junction Co
~ In Remembrance On Memorial Day ~

In Tribute to SP4 Leonard Lee Potts and with Profound Gratitude for his Courage, Service and Dedication to our Country and for Freedom. Rest in Peace and know that you will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. I am the sister of Sgt David Dickinson, another young hero, who also made the Supreme Sacrifice in Vietnam 1967.....'NOR SHALL YOUR GLORY BE FORGOT, WHILE FAME HER RECORD KEEPS, OR HONOR POINTS TO THE HALLOWED SPOT, WHERE VALOR PROUDLY SLEEPS' ~ Theodore O''Hara ~
May 25, 2009

manny g
Fellow Veteran 69-70 An Khe
Union Gap, WA. 98903
“You are Remembered”
Peace and condolence, to the family and friends. "He which hath no stomach to this fight let him depart. But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!! For he today, that sheds his blood with me, shall always be my brother”. Rest in peace brave soldier, you have not been forgotten. (W.Shakespeare) May God Bless You for your Sacrifice!!!

May 25, 2008

Perry Bergeron
busterark@msn.com
I served with Lenny in 1/28th Recon
PO Box 131 Story Ar 71970 USA
I was right behind you when you were wounded the first time
Lenny, Lenny, You are the bravest man I had the honor to serve with. Althoug small in statue-you were a huge man. I wrote your parents for a long while after I got home. They, like me, suffered one of the greatest losses in their lives. I read Strom's message and found your dad passed in '88. If your Mother is still with us and reads us; I will go to where she is and bring her a picture of you she may not have, I think I sent copies of all of them-but no effort is too great for a friend and brother like you were to me. The fact is Lenny, Recon kicked ass better than anyone else around in our time. When you got wounded by that booby trap, you took all of the shrapnel that would have hit me. When I rushed up and started first aide YOU told ME to calm down, that it was just a cut. You were not even shook up about it and refused to leave the rest of us by Medivac--incredible person and tough, tough, tough!
All you was worried about is if everybody else was okay while the blood squirted out your hand like a water fountain. God made you special, my man. I was later sent to a regular line company up North; and by the grace of God, survived that. I now know, thanks to Strom, where you are buried. Know this Lenny, that not too many days will pass before I visit you my Recon Brother.
I want to set the record straight about how you died. I had been hit 2 night before or I would have been there and killed also. The way it happened is that Phil, Jeff, Walter, Lenny, and the rest of Recon who were at the firebase went out to place a 40lb shape charge of C-4 for perimeter defense. The Army's version is when Phil went to put the blasting cap into the shape charge it blew up. That is not what those of us left behind thinks. We were in a combined firebase with the South Vietnamese. We know they had Viet Cong among them and they set a "counter charge" under the whole that Recon started to dig the evening before. Non-hostile death my ass! But, being chicken shit like the Army is no one would look at the evidence we had and they called it an accident. Chaplain Richard Goldsmith took a hand gernade from me as I was heading to Tactical Operations Contron or TOC to blow those ignorant bastards to hell.
Anyway, that is what happen.
I miss you Lenny and Honor and Respect you for one of the best Recon Infantry Soldiers that ever served in any War. Your Brother, Bergie of Louisiana
Sep 14, 2006

Emily Daunhauer
Scout117@hotmail.com
I remember
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and joy of the spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope and will. I see them now as once I saw them on this earth. They are the same bright figures that come also before your eyes and when I speak of those who were my brothers, the same words describe yours. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Francis Kaufman
Just a few words to HONOR your memory today for the day you made the SUPREME SACRIFICE on September 14th 1969. You will never be forgotten.
Friday, January 31, 2003