This page is dedicated to:

SP4 Charles G. Stanley

"Jerry"

February 21, 1949 - November 25, 1968

Rank: SP4 Grade: E4 Age: 19
Company A, 716^th Military Police Battalion
U.S. Embassy, Saigon

My father's name can be found on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, DC on panel W38, row 63.

His name can also be seen on the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Holmdel, NJ.

To those who served: WELCOME HOME

The Vietnam Conflict. Nam. Charley. Grunts. Viet Cong. The Vietnam War.
These are words that just about every American is familiar with,
decades after the final soldier lost his life in battle.

Photo © Larry Powell

Decades after...

The children continue searching.
The memorials continue to be built.
The stories continue to be published.
The songs and poems continue to be written.
The tears continue to fall.
The soldiers continue to die.
© Charles Stanley

For some of us, all we have left of our loved ones that died in Viet Nam are names etched into a granite wall. Others are lucky to have a picture or two. Maybe some letters home, or awards, or trinkets.
Some of us, like myself, have never felt our father's arms around us, and others were too young to remember.

This page will help to describe, maybe just a little, what it is like to just have a small box of mementos of a person I never knew, a person who died 17 days before I was born.
A lot of questions. Most of them still cannot be answered. I've already lived longer than my father.

A very special thanks to Larry Powell, the owner of the above images,
and author of the book, "Hunger of the Heart: Communion at the Wall"

This page was dedicated February 21, 1997.
Thank you for visiting.

Hall of Honor

Did you know my father, or serve with him? If so, please e-mail me.

Site last updated on 2/27/2001

All pages © 1997-2001 by Charles Stanley.
Above images, where noted, are property of Larry Powell. Permission to use his images must be obtained by him. All other images, and writings contained herein, are property of Charles (Chuck) Stanley, yes, me, and cannot be used in any way, shape, or form without special permission supplied by me. Thank you.

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