Lance Corporal Samuel A. Sharp Jr.

I like Pat grew up on Harrison St. Pat and Sam were a year older. Our family´s stayed friends even after the Sharps moved. In 1970 Mr Sharp offered Sam´s pickup to me. I drove that pickup into the 80´s. I was at Fort Sam when my sister called and told me they had found Sam. I immediately started crying. It´s been 20 years but it seems like yesterday. It was so emotional. Thank you Sam for your service and ultimate sacrifice. Let us never forget. Jim Clark BMC USN-Ret

I first learned of LCPL Sharp in the spring of 1993 when I bought a POW/MIA bracelet with his name on it from the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. A young Marine helped me find his name on the Wall and I made a rubbing of it to take with me to Minnesota. I would wear the bracelet and think often of who Sam was and what he might have been doing on the day he went missing. Every year as the date 5/10 draws near, he is on my mind and I always hope that someday he is found. I was surprised...

Sam was one of my best friends at Hamilton Elementary School, Campbell Grammar School, and Campbell High School, along with Tim Andrews, Jim Bergstom, & Stan Sorensen. Tim, Jim,and Stan lived next door and across the street from me, while Sam lived down the street on N. Harrison St. Sam was one of the most gentile of all of us and it made me very sad when I heard he was killed in Viet Nam. I looked for and found his name on the plastic Viet Nam Memorial that traveled to different parts of the...

Dear Irene & Family: We are so grateful that you now have your son/brother/uncle back home. We never had the pleasure of meeting Sam but, knowing your family, we are sure that he was a kind and loving young man. The Marine Corps can be proud of his service to our country.

SP4 Galen D. Stallings, US56391258, 552nd TC Company (Sedan),Saigon, Vietnam, Sep 66 to Feb 67, PMOS 11B20, Secondary MOS 76E20.

Welcome home.....

Thank You for your sacrifice, all of you guys will never be forgotten.
God Bless the Sharp Family.

THANK YOU SAM, FOR GIVING "EVERYTHING".

I was a fellow classmate of Sam's and remember him as a wonderful and friendly young man.