THE WALL OF FACES

If I should die, and leave you here awhile, he not like others, sore undone, who keep long vigils byb the silent dust, and weep...for MY sake, turn again to life, and smile...Nerving thy heart, and trembling hand to do something to comfort other hearts than thine...Complete these dear, unfinished tasks of mine...and I, pe4rchance, may therein comfort you.

Charles is buried at Killeen City Cemetery, Killeen,TX.

CPT Allen was serving with Battery B, 4th Battalion, 77th Artillery (Aerial Rocket Artillery), 101st Airborne Division at the time of his death.
He was the pilot of an AH-1G Cobra helicopter, returning from a mission in northern I Corps that went down in marginal weather. The other pilot on board the aircraft was CPT Loyd Van McCarthy, a graduate of Field Artillery OCS Class 23-66.

Eventhough its been over thirty years since your untimely death, people in Killeen still remember you and talk about you. I know you and Suzy must be having a wonderful time in Heaven. I miss you!!

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