THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

Thank you for your service Karl. I remember you well as an IHS classmate and friend.
“Until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hands.”

Dear Lt Karl Perry, Thank you for your service as an Airborne Qualified Infantry Unit Cpmmander. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is spring, and flowers are blooming. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Thank you for stepping up and answering your country's call. Rest easy knowing you will never be forgotten.

In June of 1964 my classmate Karl Perry and I exchanged yearbooks; we were not close friends, and he wrote across his name in beautiful script "Remember the Alamo." I thought nothing of it at the time; then he died and one year I looked at it and was stunned at how prophetic it was. I became a writer and have written about him and others and Vietnam, even to this day. No one else I know had Karl written that slogan across his face in a yearbook. As a writer, it jostled me into writing...and if time is another dimension, perhaps somehow it was known back then that I would be a writer, chosen in that brief interchange to remember him and others, and in general the Vietnam War in publication.