THE WALL OF FACES

Charles is buried at Shelby Hills Cemetery in Bristol,TN. PH

Charles, I miss your smile and kindness toward me. You were a great older cousin and I think of you often. You made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. If anyone who knew or served with Charles, please contact me at the below e-mail address.

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

"These heroes ... died for liberty — they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless ... they are at peace."
-- R.G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)

You and your loved ones are in our thoughts and hearts.

I didn’t know you, but I want you to know that I deeply appreciate the sacrifice you gave to our country. You died one of the noblest deaths there could be. I thank you.