THE WALL OF FACES

Dear SSgt Charles Schoepflin, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Your 91st birthday is soon, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Merry Christmas. Time moves quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

I write to you to add meaning to all the soldiers who I did not know but feel a heavy heart for. You, Charles, are one and as I leave a line here I say with whatever it is worth, I pray you did not suffer and I honor your sacrafice. I was there too, Pleiku, Binh Thuy, Dong Xoai so I know something about your experience. Rest if you can, we will all catch up to you before long. Maybe I can shake your hand if we don't have to worry about Covid-19. - Mark

Charles was my cousin, he was quite a bit older than me, and I actually called him Uncle Chuck. I was 12 when he died. I have memories of him on the holidays. The last time I saw him was Thanksgiving 1966. He was a good man, a good husband, a good father, and I'm glad to hear he was a good soldier. Chuck know your family will always remember you and your service. Your photo hang on highest on our family wall of veterans. We all gave, but you gave your all.

T.T. Brennan CWO4 (ret

Dear SSGT Charles Duaine Schoepflin, 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

To Charles Schoepflin, our 2nd-47th Brother: We who served so proudly with you want to let you know that we have established a Memorial Scholarship to honor your memory and the ultimate sacrifice that you and the other 195 brave soldiers of the 2nd-47th Mechanized Infantry made while serving our country in Vietnam in 1966-1970. Our wish is that this Memorial Scholarship conveys the highest tribute possible to each of you because it comes from the hearts of the soldiers who served with you. It represents the everlasting and inexpressible gratitude we feel for your sacrifice. We got to live the lives that you were deprived of, and this scholarship is one small way of expressing our sorrow for your loss and our appreciation for the magnitude of what you gave. Many of you brave young soldiers sacrificed your own lives to save one of us, and we have carried heartfelt memories of you for nearly four decades. This perpetual Memorial Scholarship is our way of being sure that the memories of love, honor, and respect we feel for you, our Panther Brothers lost in combat, will live on forever. [If you are a 2nd-47th veteran, or a friend or family member of one of our fallen Brothers, and would like more information about how to support or apply for our Memorial Scholarship, information is available at www.247scholarship.org ]