CAPTAIN EDMOND J. LANDERS, SS, BSM, PH.

CONCLUSION:

The "Three Servicemen" memorial statue at the entrance to The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Washington, D.C.,U.S.A. Photo © 1992 W.S.O' Shea.

The sixteen known Irishmen, including Captain Edmond J. Landers, who gave their lives on the battlefields of South-East Asia during the Vietnam Campaign had, like generations of Irishmen before them, answered the call of their adopted countries and fought in the defence of a free world. Through the generosity of Mr. Kane and his family, Ireland now has its own memorial to honour those Irish U. S. servicemen and women who served , but more especially to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and gave their all. Its purpose, as so aptly described by Mr. Kane himself, " will be to help the families, including the families of Ireland's peace-keepers who died on U. N. Missions, to make the transition; not necessarily to ease the pain but provide an anchor, a milestone of remembrance".

Edmond J. Landers

is commemorated on

The Vietnam Veterans'

Memorial

in Washington D. C.,

Panel #60E

Line #24.

The information on this Internet Memorial to Captain E. J. Landers was compiled by Walter. S. O'Shea of Tipperary © Copyright March 2001 (All rights reserved). It is published on this website with the permission of both the author and the family of the late Captain E. J. Landers.

Panel # 60E of the polished black granite"Wall that Heals", theVietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo by W.S. O'Shea © 1992 reworked graphic by The Plug-in Office.

Walter "Stephen" O'Shea (Captain Lander's nephew) writes:
"My own lasting memories of Edmond J. Landers are when I was a young boy of twelve years. I can remember watching him in the living room of my grandmother's house polishing his army Officer Pattern 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 he knew I would have given anything to have 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."

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© Walter S. O' Shea. Tipperary, Ireland. March 2001.