Hickam Field Survivor Returns 'Home' for Last Time  Dec 12, 2012
AF remembrance ceremony 600x400  JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM,
Hawaii -- For the final time, retired Senior Master Sgt. Raymond
Lee Perry has returned "home" to Hickam Field.  Seventy-one
years to the day, Dec. 7, 2012, Perry's family culminated a
journey which began with the attacks on military installations
around Oahu by bringing his remains back to Hickam Field one
last time to attend the Dec. 7, 1941 Remembrance Ceremony, and
then say their final goodbyes as they spread his ashes in the
waters of the Pearl Harbor Channel. The Federal Fire Department
also performed the Fireman's Last Call, a toll of the bell 15
times in honor of Perry. This is the first time a Hickam Field
survivor has had his ashes spread here.  "I don't have words to
express this moment," said Elizabeth Perry, wife of the late
Perry. "I'm sure he's proud, very proud of the service today. He
was very brave during his last journey. He was alert to the
last."  Perry first