Ralph R. Carpenter, Jr
Specialist Four
D CO, 3RD BN, 12TH INFANTRY, 4TH INF DIV, USARV Army of the United States Palatine, Illinois April 19, 1946 to November 02, 1968 RALPH R CARPENTER Jr is on the Wall at Panel W39, Line 7 |
|
|
SP4 RALPH R CARPENTER Jr
|
Randy was the youngest child in our family of five Carpenter children. He was my only brother. My mom had three girls before he came along and it was really a great thing to have a "kid Brother". We were sixteen years apart and I guess I was in some ways almost an uncle to him. I encouraged him to take up the guitar in those years of the folk music craze of the '60's. I took him to see Pete Seeger in downtown Chicago at one of the theatres. I bought him a record of Pete's which was instructional in learning to play the guitar. It was a big old vinyl LP. I also bought him a set of golf clubs. He was such a good kid. We all miss him so and choke up when we think about him as I am doing now. This remembrance is for Memorial Day 2001. Oh how I wish he could have lived or visited with us here in Florida and met all his nieces and nephews and cousins! His older brother |
A memorial from his Brother, Jack Carpenter jcarpen7@tampabay.rr.com 7 May 2001 |
Contact Us | © Copyright 1997-2019 www.VirtualWall.org, Ltd ®(TM) | Last update 08/15/2019. |