THE WALL OF FACES

Dear PO3C John Sorrenti, Thank you for your service as a Hospitalman with the 26 Marines, Semper Fi. Thank you for the lives you saved. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and Passover is soon, too. Time moves quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

HM3 John Anthony "Jack" Sorrenti is buried in Section 21, Lot 26, Grave 1 of the New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan, MA.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Semper Fi, Doc.

Thank you Doc Sorrenti for your courage and for your devotion to your Marines.

I went to school (English High) with Dick and Jack. We all wound up at U-Mass (Boston). For (various) reasons, untold, we three wound up at a recruiters office. Dick was born to be a Marine. Jack and I were intent on joining the Navy. While Jack talked to the Navy recruiter, I sat, and as luck would have it, listened to an Air Force recruiter who (I swear) said "I'm not blowin' smoke up yer ass" as he seduced me.. and "guaranteed" I could get into radio broadcasting...I was sure I had the voice for it. I knew these guys...and knew how little we know. I came back. It hurts me to think about them every year, sometimes every night. They were my youth and I lost it.

I went to school (English High) with Dick and Jack. We all wound up at U-Mass (Boston). For (various) reasons, untold, we three wound up at a recruiters office. Dick was born to be a Marine. Jack and I were intent on joining the Navy. While Jack talked to the Navy recruiter, I sat, and as luck would have it, listened to an Air Force recruiter who (I swear) said "I'm not blowin' smoke up yer ass" as he seduced me.. and "guaranteed" I could get into radio broadcasting...I was sure I had the voice for it. I knew these guys...and knew how little we know. I came back. It hurts me to think about them every year, sometimes every night. They were my youth and I lost it.