Richard "Richie" Ramirez

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Veterans Day

 On this Veterans Day I am very proud to say that this was my cousin and childhood friend, Richard "Richie" Ramirez We were about the same age and we grew up together in the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona, 20 miles north of Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. We both attended Douglas High School graduating in 1964. The last time that I saw him was in June of 1968 when he shipped out of Travis Air Force Base in northern California to Viet Nam. I never saw him again.He was killed in Vietnam in August 1968.  We went to his funeral in late August of 1968. We didn't see the body. It was a closed casket. The sadness that I saw in his mother, my tia Josefina,  on the day of the funeral is the sadness that I have seen in her everytime that I have seen after that. It is a sadness that has never gone away. The loss of a sun or daughter has got to be devasting to a parent. I get chills just thinking about this  and writing about this. May god take me before he takes any of my children or grandchildren. May Richie rest in peace. 

 Copy the link below to view his place on The Wall.

 http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/42266/RICHARD-RAMIREZ-JR











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