From the Department of State.
The State Department has honored 71people who died while in the service of American diplomacy. One of them was the War of 1812's Oliver Hazard Perry.
There is a memorial plaque at the Harry S. Truman Building, the State Department's headquarters, now listing 323 people.
Yes, that Perry of Battle of Lake Erie fame.
But most people, including myself, know the circumstances of his much-too-young death.
COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, who, after serving heroically in the War of 1812, went on a special mission to Venezuela to negotiate an anti-piracy agreement with President Simon Bolivar.
Perry contracted yellow fever and died August 23, 1819, less than six years after the Battle of Lake Erie.
He is the Perry in this blog's sign off.
--Brock-Perry
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