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Mabry, Ralph Edgar, Jr., SGT.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Duncan
Last Address 1108 S. 6th Street, Lawton, OK 73501
Casualty Date Jan 30, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Multiple Fragmentation Wounds
Location Binh Duong (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Duncan Municipal Cemetery - Duncan, Oklahoma
Dear SGT Ralph Edgar Mabry 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
As I grow older I think of you often and the times we enjoyed in our younger days. I was in Germany when I recieved the news. I followed you over there a few months later. I hate losing you. Eddie, I enjoy looking back on the times we went duck hunting b-4 school, and the icy mornings, and the hawk that came back to life at your feet in the back of my car. Thank you for those good times. I am so proud of you and above all proud to call you MY FRIEND!!!!
Eddie was a cowboy at heart who loved all living creatures! A really neat guy who loved horses and the cowboy code! I have missed you guy every day of my life and would have given anything to have grown old with you still here. You were my second best friend and you know who was the first - you have never been forgotten and we still say ye haw whenever we remember and that is often !!!!!!!!!!
Love ya and have always missed ya in our lives !!!!!!!! Your shit kicker friends!!!!
We still love ya and have never, never, never forgotten.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C2555D@aol.com
FELLOW SOLDIER 25TH INF.
2555 MIDDLE WAY
EASTON, PA 18040 USA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN,HERO. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE, DOUG, CO.A 222ND MECH. INF. 25TH INF. DIV. 1968
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Darrell Clabaugh darrellclabaugh@hotmail.com
High School Classmate & Friend
My friend, you will never be forgotten. I think of you often! You and David G. and James H., Donnie, and Brock P., and Ricky M. and all that we got into as youngsters growing up. I followed you in country in April, after your death. I get mad when I think of what you went thru. B-4 I left for Vietnam I knew why we were over there. When I came home I knew I had no idea why we were there. All I do know is because of you and many, many, YOUNG BRAVE MEN, I was able to raise 2 fine boys, and now have 2 baby girls, ages 9 & 7 and we have a grandaughter, and grandson. Eddie,you will always be immortalized on the Beautiful Wall in Washington D.C., but I write this so all who will read these comments will understand that you are immortalized in my heart as long as it beats. Eddie, I'll always be greatful to you for the sacrafice you made and I just wanted you to know I AM PROUD TO HAVE CALLED YOU MY FRIEND!
Friday, January 30, 2004
manny g
Fellow Veteran 69-70 An Khe
Union Gap, WA. 98903
“You are Remembered”
Peace and condolence, to the family and friends. "He which hath no stomach to this fight let him depart. But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!! For he today, that sheds his blood with me, shall always be my brother”. Rest in peace brave soldier, you have not been forgotten. (W.Shakespeare) May God Bless You for your Sacrifice!!!
Jan 30, 2007
Manuel Pino Bco 2/8th 1st Cav 68-69 mpjr54@msn.com
Fellow Vietnam Army Vet
D Trp/3/4th Cav Rgt, 25th Inf Div
The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night
and when the clock counts.
They say: We were young. We have died.
Remember us.
They say: We have done what we could
but until it is finished it is not done.
They say: We have given our lives but until it is finished
no one can know what our lives gave.
They say: Our deaths are not ours: they are yours,
they will mean what you make them.
They say: Whether our lives and our deaths were for
peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say,
it is you who must say this.
We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We were young, they say. We have died; remember us.
by Archibald MacLeish,
1892-1982, American Poet
Jul 13, 2007
Phil Wilhelm pmw89883@peoplepc.com
Highschool Classmate
44 Wilderness Road Eureka MO 63025 UAS
Fourty Years Later
In my yearbook, "Smokerings 65" is a notation under Eddie's senior picture, "killed in Vietnam 1-30-68". I think of all that has happened in my life in the last 40 years. Marriage, three boys, and three grandchildern. That and more that Eddie and his family have missed because of his death. It is my hope that this note is seen by a loveone of Eddie's and that it is understood that to this day he is still remembered.
"The Mansions of the Lord"
To fallen soldiers let us sing
where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
the Mansions of the Lord
No more bleeding no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
just divine embrace, eternal light
in the Mansions of the Lord
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard tho the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep
the Mansions of the Lord
