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Hale, Charles Chaplin, Jr., PFC.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Williamsburg
Last Address Williamsburg
Casualty Date Feb 07, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Burns
Location Hau Nghia (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Williamsburg Memorial Park - James City, Virginia
Tyler Hale
No Relation
San Antonio TX
Thank You
Thank you dearly for your service, sir! And know that there will always be support for troops like you!
May 18, 2009
Jennifer Burns sky_lava@yahoo.com
466 LongBranch rd Chesnee S.C. 29323
Though you are gone you will never be forgotten! You and men
like you, are the reason we are free today! I just wanted to say THANK YOU for the sacrifices that you made! I hold you and those like you in the highest regard and you deserve nothing less! I love you all, you were and always will be HEROES to me! I promise never to take for granted the freedoms I have, which you paid the ultimate price for! Happy Birthday!
I WILL REMEMBER YOU!!!
Gratefully yours, Jenn.
Apr 18, 2007
Manuel Pino Jr mpjr54@msn.com
Fellow Vietnam Vet
MY COUNTRY'S FLAG CRIED the flag bowed it's bars and wept starry tears as it hung at half-mast for a soldier's years. another youth it had called and another youth had died. I stood and i watched as my country's flag cried. it clothed the drab coffin in it's red, white, and blue, silently protecting the contents for the comfort of a few. it brought strength to some, to others, bitter pride. but as mourners filed by, my country's flag cried. as it rode to the field where the soldier was laid away, the flag recalled the pledge that he used to stand and say, but to war he went and to keep that pledge, he tried. as the guns fired their last salute, my country's flag cried. as taps rang out, it was folded with care, for the soldier's soul a chaplin whispered a prayer. he asked god for peace in this world to abide, and in a grieving mother's arms my country's flag cried!
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
We Remember
Charles is buried at Williamsburg Memorial Park, James City County,VA.
"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
Posted by: Bill Nelson Email: grite@yahoo.com Relationship: NamVet 2/502 Inf 101 Abn 69-70 Tuesday, January 10, 2006
You could have been a singer
I'll always remember how you could sing rock & roll. You had the moves, the voice - at least I thought so for seventh grade. Sorry, I moved away, Buddy, and never saw or talked to you again. I do remember you, Charles Chaplin Hale, like seventh grade was yesterday. Bill
Relationship: We grew up together Friday, February 15, 2002
