X-Message-Number: 17598
Subject: John W. Perry
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <>
Date: 17 Sep 2001 12:42:00 -0400

It hasn't appeared here, so I thought I'd mention that John W. Perry
is missing, and I presume dead, in the World Trade Center terrorist
attack.  I don't know if anyone outside of the New York crowd
remembers him particularly well, but I do.

When John became a police officer, I thought it was perhaps an odd
choice for a libertarian and cryonicist, not to mention an attorney.
His was not the usual sort of background for a policeman.

I never dreamed that, as a department lawyer who spent most of his
time behind a desk, he would one day give his life saving people. I
know no details of what brought him to the Trade Center last Tuesday
-- I know only that, since his stint working as a police officer in
Kosovo had fallen through, he'd been working at least temporarily on
patrol in the Bronx, even further away than he usually was from the
financial district.

I had not even thought to check up on him.


Perry

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