Honor and Remember

Richard Lee Sparks

5-10-1945 - 9-19-1968

Branch of Service: U.S. Army

Rank: SP/4

Spouse of: Karen A. Walker-Sparks

Comments: 82nd Airborne on his first hitch when they went in to Dominican Republic to overthrow the dictator. When he re-enlisted, we were stationed at a couple of missile bases in northern Ohio. Then he got his orders for Vietnam when we were pregnant, and he had to leave when our daughter was five months old. We were making plans for R&R, but he died when he’d only been there five months.