THE WALL OF FACES

I have not forgotten you. I chair the Adoption Committee for The National League of Families of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia. We will always remember the 1,889 Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia and the thousands of others that lost their lives. We will not stop our efforts until all of you are home where you belong.

We need to reach the next generation so that they will carry on when our generation is no longer able. To do so, we are attempting to locate photographs of all the missing. If you are reading this remembrance and have a photo and/or memory of this missing American that you would like to share for our project, please contact me at:

Candace Lokey
PO Box 206
Freeport, PA 16229
[email protected]

If you are not familiar with our organization, please visit our web site at :

www.pow-miafamilies.org

I still wear your MIA braclet Ralph, and as yet, still no word about you for over 35 years. I will never forget you Ralph and you and your family are always in my prayers. God bless you Ralph and thank you for doing your job so that others may live free. It is an honor to wear the bracelet with your name on it.

If I should die, and leave you here awhile, be not like others, sore undone, who keep long vigils by the silent dust, and weep...for MY sake, turn again to life, and smile...Nerving thy heart, and trembling hand to do something to comfort other hearts than thine...Complete these dear, unfinished tasks of mine...and I, perchance, may therein comfort you.

I currently wear Ralphs bracelet on my vest,which I picked out at the Forget-Me-Not motorcycle run 2 years ago in the Reading area. Last year I chose a bracelet from a soldier from the Korean War & placed it with Ralphs.

I used to wear his MIA bracelet during the Vietnam War. I still think about him sometimes.