HONORED ON PANEL 18W, LINE 83 OF THE WALL
CHARLES WARNER BECKER
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CHARLES W BECKER
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18W/83
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POSTED ON 2.14.2016
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Ground Casualty
On September 14, 1969, a detail of soldiers representing various companies from 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry, were placing explosive charges on the defensive perimeter of a fire support base (name not given) approximately 7 miles northwest of Lai Khe, Binh Duong Province, RVN, when a friendly Claymore mine accidently detonated. Eight soldiers were killed in the incident. They included SP4 Tony E. Scoggins, PFC Charles W. Becker, PFC Walter E. Heyer Jr., SP4 Jeffrey J. Johns, SSGT Joseph V. Mathias, PFC Paul W. Murphy, SP4 Leonard L. Potts, and SGT Daniel P. Ratledge. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]
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POSTED ON 9.14.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter
Remembering An American Hero
Dear PFC Charles Warner Becker, 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
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
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POSTED ON 11.17.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Charles is buried at St Mary's Cemetery, Minooka,IL. BSM ARCOM
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POSTED ON 3.22.2007
POSTED BY: becker
similarities
Thank you for your sacrifice. Being around the same age as my father and with the same name, it is scary to think of what could have been.
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POSTED ON 8.16.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson
NEVER FORGOTTEN
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
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