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Sergeant Perry's Quarters
Welcome aboard!
This is the home of former Staff Sergeant Edmund C. Perry, United States Marine Corps. As you may have heard, ''Once a Marine, always a Marine,'' and if ever proof is needed of that fact, tell 'em to mosey on over here. Everyone's welcome all of the time, so sit down, open a brew, and stay a while. Any FNGs may want to learn more about me, but the rest of you can stand at ease. (If you need browser help or don't hear music after the page loads, go on over and visit my Site Help area where you can get a decent MIDI player. Developers can also pick up a nice link button for my site.)
My hooch is kinda' cramped with all the stuff in here, but don't be shy about poking around to find something that might interest you. There's a bunch of links here that'll get rusty if not exercised, and I'm depending on you to help keep them shiny 'cause I'm flat out of Brasso.
Oh, yeah, Orders of the Day. First off, the smoking lamp is always lit in this place unless you're from some fascist PC place like California or the 6 says we're on alert. Second off, I don't want to find you sitting for hours on end in here stuffing your face full of pogey bait, so here's something to help remind you.
(Hey, dummy, did you break my clock? Try hitting your Reload button. You don't have a Java-capable browser? Jeez, criminy! It's bad enough I kept the clock and the rest of this stuff out of frames to help the less fortunate. (That's just the Marine way -- looking out for our buddies.) Of course I'm also depending on you to maintain a computer with a decent local clock, pal. It's also bad enough I'm having to convert to that ''a.m. and p.m." nonsense instead of good old 24-hour Navy time. (If it's ''oh-dark-hundred,'' you're up way too late or too early anyway.) If you're not sure about your clock, you might want to check out the United States Naval Observatory to get a real-time fix for your 'puter. Aren't those Navy guys something? And for years we thought they were just there to drive us around on their boats.)
This site is ...
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A Tribute
At Parris Island we always sang ''Eternal Father, Strong to Save'' in chapel. Naval personnel have their favorite verses; those of us destined for Marine Aviation had our own:
| Lord, guard and guide the men who fly |
| Through the great spaces in the sky, |
| Be with them always in the air, |
| In dark'ning storms or sunlight fair. |
| O, Hear us when we lift our prayer, |
| For those in peril in the air. |
During the Vietnam War over 58,000 U.S. troops lost their lives. Of these, 2,663 were helicopter enlisted crewmembers (crewchiefs, gunners, medics, etc.) and another 2,172 were rotary wing pilots from all services (over 6% of all U.S. casualties). And of those who made the ultimate sacrifice, more than 14,800 (over 25%) were United States Marines (more than half of these during the time I was in Vietnam). God rest their valiant souls.
... has moved, with the exception of links needed to navigate this site, to another page on this site to reduce download time. Sorry, but you'll just have to Visit the Link List to access links to more of my personal sites, POW/MIA Sites, U.S. Government Sites, Aircrew Veteran Organizations, Web Rings, Locator Services, and selected Personal and Organization Web Sites.
Honoring POWs and MIAs is my personal tribute to these courageous men and women of all services. I hope you will also take time to visit the POW/MIA Sites listed among the other links also available on this site.
Click on Ron Fleischer's graphic
to read about my adopted hero.
''The Myth of the Girl in the Photo'' is Ron Timberlake's carefully researched account behind the story of one of the most famous photos from the Viet Nam War showing a naked and terrified little girl running away from the village of Trang Bang. If you'd like to learn the true story behind this photo (which you certainly did not receive from an A&E Network documentary regarding same), then you must read this account.
My Life in the Corps includes numerous photos, maps, and anecdotes in addition to the usual chronological sketch.
Life before the Corps was pretty adventurous, too, as you can learn here.
Life after the Corps has been tame by comparison, but full of life's equally and frequently more satisfying rewards.
Scuttlebutt includes more anecdotes, humor, and more vignettes of life in the Corps.
Seargeant Perry's Jukebox features oldies from the '50s and later (all in MIDI format, so they load quickly).
| ''But we . . . shall be remembered -- |
| We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; |
| For he today that sheds his blood with me |
| Shall be my brother . . .'' |
| (William Shakespeare, Henry V) |
Death Before Dishonor ...
... Semper Fidelis!
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(Click on Ron Fleischer's graphic
to learn more about our MIAs.)
These Quarters have been greatly honored by the following awards.
(Click on award images for links to the grantors.)
(Awarded 16 January 1998. Thank you, Al.)
| To all whom these presents shall come
Greetings Know ye, that I, confiding in the outstanding PATRIOTISM - LOYALTY - INTEGRITY of ''Sergeant Perry's Quarters'' do as of this date, 16 January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nineteen hundred and ninety-eight and of the great Independence of the ''United States of America'' the two hundred and twenty-second year bestow upon the above named ''Patriot'' with great pride for the exceptional display of ''Outstanding Patriotism'' this Award. Know ye all who preview this presentation, that this Award is conferred upon True Patriots only. Be it also known that this Award is given at the discretion of its originator, or by recommendation of a recipient, and cannot be applied for. Presented by: Al Varelas - USMC Decorated Vietnam Veteran 26th Marine Regiment Khe Sanh Combat Base Republic of South Vietnam |
This award is particularly meaningful to me because of the identity of its grantor --
Al Varelas, a fellow Marine, winner of the Silver Star and numerous other awards
for his actions during the Battle of Khe Sanh, and a true American Patriot.
Thank you, Al.
(Awarded 18 January 1998. Thank you, Ben.)
(Awarded 18 January 1998. Thank you, Bill.)
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Last Updated: 20 January 1998