California’s War Dead

    David S. Perry

    David S. Perry, 36

    Army National Guard, Staff Sergeant
    Baqubah, Iraq
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Bakersfield
    I think everyone in the Guard right now is devastated. We don't want to lose any one of them, but to lose one of his caliber is devastating.
    — Denise Varner, National Guard Captain

    In the course of his military career, Perry responded to the Los Angeles riots and participated in Operation Desert Storm. In civilian life, he was a California state correctional officer. He was killed when a package he was inspecting exploded.
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    One memory of David S. Perry

    THANK YOU!!!!!!! For your sacrifice, words do little to describe our sincere gratitude. However, There is a hope for a future where such wonderful people will not have to die in the wars of the world. ISAIAH 2:4 And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore....REV 21:3,4-"death will be no more"

    — krystal
    March 31, 2012 at 10:21 p.m.
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