THE WALL OF FACES

There is a memorial on Find a Grave for Charles. and a picture of his grave. It is so sad that this war claimed so many of our very young men and how they were ignored when the war ended.

Dear PFC Charles Lee Hicks, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter

Charles is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Hazard, Perry County, KY.

There is so many, He loved all the family so very much, He loved playing the spoons, beating on anything that would make a drum sound. Once he and my our cousins and a friend of his were out acting like a band in the back yard, with spoons, a lard can and God knows what all, singing and making music lol, we all laughed at them til we almost wet our paints lol sorry couldn't help but say that cause it was the truth.. He was older than me and he taught me so much, To love and help people and be good to people, told me things about people that was so true, and to this day when I'm around those people I remember what he said, He knew people, it was like he saw ahead what some people was going to be and how they would act. He had me so spoiled I tried to follow him ever where he went, if he went to our Aunt Ethel's I had to go with him lol, sometimes I got to go sometimes I didn't lol, I can still hear him telling me that me may not come back from the war. but he wanted me to always remember to be good, I still have his letters he wrote home to mom and dad, always asking how our brother Odell and I were doing in school. always concerned for the family. So much I could say, that will never leave my heart or mind, today I sometime feel his presence. Or maybe its just wishful thinking on my part, I will see him again one day in Heaven, I try now to think that Ive not lost a brother, but I've gained many brothers and sisters that fought in The Viet Nam War., When the Wall; came to Hazard, I had to try and find peace with it. That's when I decided those guys who had fought there and made it back home, are my brothers, Because God needed my own brother in Heaven to play music for him. I love and miss you so very much Charles, see you one day with God.

Charles, we miss you everyday, and wish we could have got to meet you. Dad ( Cecil) misses you, and talks of you often. with love, C.C. Hicks - Scottsburg, Ind