Ralph Robert Wensinger

West Point, 1959

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by John Guthrie on July 14, 2019:

Thank you so very much Rosalyn for your moving tribute to your beloved brother - and my friend and West Point classmate, Ralph Wensinger. I recall him as vividly as though we were both still in our early 20s, on the Plains of West Point. I knew and admired Ralph as a teammate on the first "150 pound" Army football team. He was the inspirational quarterback on our great team - and a wonderful guy, a respected leader. As a cadet, one recalls the great historical figures of the Long Gray Line from past wars - as being somehow larger than life. We were young guys who had shared the rigors of West Point, and we looked forward to a career filled with challenges and opportunities, somehow invincible, without fear or concern for the future. We have lost many fine friends in combat, when our own margin of survival may often have been mere inches from the path of an enemy bullet. So too, many others have departed this life from other causes. But, "we happy few, we band of brothers" will never forget our comrades who have gone before us. We expect that they have saved us a place beside them at the bar at the great "Benny Havens in the sky" - out there, somewhere. We will all be united again, still at age 20-something, slim and handsome, still filled with the hopes and dreams of our youth. Your wonderful memories of Ralph are a great testimony that one's spirit does indeed, live on after death. With a classmate's love for you and Ralph's family, John Guthrie '59

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