THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PFC Napoleon Enoch Taliaferro, 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, Sir

Curt Carter

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Frye – 1932

Napoleon is buried at Beverly Nat Cem.

The Defense Department announced the death of Marine Pfc. Napoleon Enoch Taliaferro, 18, of 2336 N. Bouvier st. He was reported drowned June 15 in a river in Vietnam.
Pfc. Taliaferro was a 1967 graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School and had planned to make the service a career. Ten days after his arrival in Vietnam in December 1967, he was wounded in the leg.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Taliaferro; three brothers, Elwood, 17, Anthony, 10, and Vincent, 3, and a sister, Clementeen, 20.

Semper Fidelis, Marine!