THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PFC Charles Torliatt, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Agent Orange Awareness Month. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Private First Class Charles Peter Torliatt Jr., Served with Company B, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.

Dear PFC Charles Peter Torliatt Jr, 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

That's what Charlie's Mom said to me when we talked in her garden. I went to school with Danny, Charlie's brother. Charlie is buried in this little tiny graveyard about a couple miles from his house. Someone planted a redwood right over the grave and that tree is right through him. Good to have him here and have that tree over him. He dies about 8 months after I came home. What a great kid.

Photo from the 1965 Petaluma High School Annual, Petaluma, California, May his sacrifice not be forgotten.