ÿþ<HTML><HEAD> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="911 remembered, John W. Perry, Michel P. Colbert, best friends"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="911 remembered: John W. Perry, Michel P. Colbert - best friends"> <TITLE>Over Ten Years later -- 911 remembered: John W. Perry, Michel P. Colbert - best friends </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><BR><BR> <CENTER> <FONT color=#000000 face="tahoma" size=2> Over Ten Years later -- 911 remembered <br> John W. Perry, Michel P. Colbert - best friends </font><br> <br> <TABLE cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="700"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor="#1c1c1c"> <BR> <FONT color="#1C1C1C" face="tahoma" size=4> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; WE REMEMBER OUR FRIENDS.</font><BR><BR><center> <IMG src="http://www.sefco-export.com/americasdefence.gif" align="center"></center><BR><BR> <FONT color="#1C1C1C" size=5> &nbsp; NEVER <br> &nbsp; FORGET</FONT> </TD> <td bgColor="#1c1c1c"><center><br><br><IMG src="http://www.sefco-export.com/e-pluribus-unum.jpg"><br> <font color="#D3D3D3" face="tahoma" size="1"><br>THIS PHOTO IS PART OF A <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/nineeleven.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#D3D3D3" face="tahoma" size="1">SERIES OF PICTURES</a><br> TAKEN IN FOREST HILLS NYC, 7-MILES EAST OF THE WTC <br>from 9:10 AM on... 11 SEPT 2001 <br> JUST MOMENTS AFTER THE SECOND PLANE <br>HIT THE SECOND TWIN TOWER. <br> <br>A MUSHROOM CLOUD RISES OVER THE CITY.<br><br> </center> </td></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE cellpadding="15" width="700"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <CENTER><IMG src="http://www.thebest-of.info/johnperry_2.jpg"><br> <FONT face=tahoma size=2>Officer John Perry, 40th Precinct, Bronx<br><br> "...the longtime cop was on his way to One Police Plaza to file his retirement papers when he saw people who needed help." </CENTER></TD> <TD><CENTER><table><tr><td><FONT color=#000000 face="tahoma" size=4><b>OUR FRIENDS... <br><br> <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/911_5years_later.htm"><IMG src="http://www.sefco-export.com/jwp-nypd.jpg"></a> <BR><font color="#FFFFFF"></FONT></b></TD> </tr></table></td></tr> <TR> <TD> <CENTER> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <CENTER><a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/JohnWilliamPerry.htm"><IMG src="http://www.sefco-export.com/johnperry1.jpg"></a></CENTER> <FONT face=tahoma size=1>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yoko-chan and John W Perry,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aboard the lightship <a href="http://www.fryingpan.com" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">Frying Pan</a> docked in NYC harbor, c.1999</font></font> </TD> </TR> </TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD> <TD> <table align="left"><TR> <TD> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/johnwp-1ascan_b.jpg"> <FONT face=tahoma size=1>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;JWP at Ascan Ave rooftop</font></TD></TR></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><a name="timesarticle"></a> <TABLE border="1" cellpadding="12" width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <nobr><FONT face=tahoma size=2>NY Times - November 16, 2001 - <B>A Policeman for Starters, and at the End</B> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font size="1" face="calibri"> [<a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/JohnWPerry_5years_later_printerversion.htm"><font color="#000000">PRINTABLE VERSION</a>] &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font></nobr> <BR><BR> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you looked closely at the opening scene of "NYPD Blue" Tuesday evening, you could have spotted a tall handsome man named <b>John W. Perry</b>. He was an extra, playing one of the mourners in police uniforms at the funeral of an officer. For Mr. Perry's friends and relatives, the scene was much too familiar. The bagpipes and drums, the ceremonial pass of the helicopter, the solemn folding of the American flag. They had just been through it all. The same police officer who sang "Ave Maria" at the television funeral, standing near Mr. Perry during the scene filmed in August, sang again on Saturday morning at Mr. Perry's memorial service. Mr. Perry did not just play a police officer on TV. He was a member of the Police Department who somehow found time to be an actor, a lawyer, a political activist, a volunteer social worker, an athlete, a linguist, and those were just some of the vocations listed by Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik during the service at the First Presbyterian Church on West 12th Street. "I thought I was the only person with nine lives in a career," Mr. Kerik said. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Mr. Perry, who was 38</b>, was raised in Seaford, on Long Island. He couldn't tie his shoes or ride a bicycle until he was 9, and spent several early grades in special education classes. But he went on to run marathons, finish law school and serve in the Police Department as both a patrolman and a prosecutor of corrupt officers. <a href="http://www.iparegion2.org/heroes.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/jwp_ipa.jpg" align="right" border="0"></a>For the service on Saturday, his mother, Patricia Perry, picked a reading about a lawyer, the one who asks Jesus how to gain eternal life and is told the parable of the Good Samaritan. After the service, Mr. Perry's friends and relatives couldn't stop telling stories of his unsolicited loans and gifts and favors. His apartment at Amsterdam Houses, the housing project near Lincoln Center, was a continual bed and breakfast, not only for <a href="#mpc">friends</a> from overseas (he spoke French, Russian, Spanish and Swedish), but also for a homeless man he befriended. He volunteered as an investigator of child abuse for the Kings County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He was a police officer who opposed the war on drugs and was concerned about racial profiling (he was himself the product of an interracial marriage). He belonged to the Libertarian Party and the New York Civil Liberties Union, and worked on the campaign of Norman Siegel, the former New York Civil Liberties Union official who ran for public advocate. "We spent Sept. 9 driving around in his car as he made campaign announcements in English and Spanish," Mr. Siegel said. "I was convinced he would run for office himself one day. He was a brilliant, charismatic Renaissance man with a sparkle in his eye and an infectious smile. His future was unlimited." Two days later, Mr. Perry, who had a job waiting in a Manhattan law firm, went to file his retirement papers. He was at Police Headquarters, off duty, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. His retirement was promptly postponed. He bought a golf shirt with the N.Y.P.D. logo and rushed to the lobby of the north tower next to the plaza. As office workers came down the stairs, he and other officers steered them away from the plaza, to a downstairs exit safe from the debris and bodies that were falling outside. "People would come out of the stairwell and freeze when they looked at the plaza," said Keith Morse, a police officer working with Mr. Perry. "There was one body lying right next to the window. A burning foot bounced off the glass at one point. People would look and go into shock. We had to grab them and keep them moving toward the escalator." One woman complained of chest pains and couldn't go on. Mr. Perry and a police captain, Timothy Pearson, took her arms and started to help her out of the building. Then they heard what sounded to Mr. Pearson and Mr. Morse like Niagara Falls. It was the other tower collapsing. "A wind like a tornado came at us, carrying debris and glass and soot," Mr. Pearson said. "It was sheer pandemonium. There was complete darkness. Windows shattered and parts of the floor collapsed." Mr. Pearson and Mr. Morse separately managed to escape from the tower just before it, too, collapsed. They never saw or heard anything of Mr. Perry or the woman he was helping. "It was just part of John's nature to be there," his mother said Saturday. "This big man standing there, directing people to safety. It was the culmination of a lifetime of wanting to help. I was very glad we had the Good Samaritan reading today." <br><center><br> <table border="1" cellpadding="2"><tr> <td> <center> <FONT face="calibri" size="4">"John Perry"</font></center> <IMG src="http://www.thebest-of.info/carry.jpg" width="416" height="333"> <center> <FONT face="calibri" size="4">"FOUND"</font></center><br> <FONT face=tahoma size=1>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2001-2011 - remembered - <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ncl=dUB974a-xpAAgzMvKFS_Pa9aEZwJM&topic=h" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">TAPES</a> - <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/keeping_new_york_safe_cAfp5g6UWApaIcgK8Vs9lK" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">Ray Kelly, NYPD</font></a></font> <br> <br> </td> <td><center> <FONT face="calibri" size="4">"Mike" Colbert</font></center> <br> <FONT face=tahoma size=1>*one of John W. Perry's best friends...<br> <center> <img src="http://www.sefco-export.com/mikecolbert7.jpg" width="208" height="146"> <br> <center> <FONT face="calibri" size="4">"MISSING"</font></center> <br><br> <u><b>Michel P. Colbert</b></u>* - Cantor Fitzgerald <br> World Trade Center Tower #1 &nbsp; 104 th Floor <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; <u>Parents</u>&nbsp;&nbsp; Raymond and Marie Colbert <br> <br> <br> <FONT face="calibri" size="3">"never found"</font></center> </td></tr> </table> <br><br><table width="96%"><tr><td> <img src="http://www.88ny.net/medal-clear.gif" align="right"> <img src="http://www.88ny.net/medal_05.gif" align="left"> <font size="2"> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Friends Remembered</b> <br><br><center> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rest in Peace - <b>John William Perry</b> &nbsp;<br> New Yorker (Seaford, Long Island)<br> <a href="http://www.legacy.com/Sept11.asp?Page=Story&PersonID=122581" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">www.legacy.com/Sept11.asp?Page=Story&PersonID=122581</a> </b><br> <nobr> Member <a href="http://www.88ny.net/medal_wtc.htm" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">88th Brigade, NY National Guard</a> - <a href="http://www.legacy.com/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=122581"><FONT color="#000000">View Legacy Guest Book</a></nobr><br>Remains found 7 March 2002. </center> <br><center> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rest in Peace - <b>Michel Paris Colbert</b> <br> <nobr> Name read out loud 9:22 am</nobr><br> <nobr>11 Sept 2007 at WTC site</nobr> <br>Michell was an Employee of Cantor Fitzgerald, Native of France <br> World Trade Center 104th floor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remains never found. <br><a href="http://www.legacy.com/Sept11.asp?Page=Story&PersonID=103966" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">www.legacy.com/Sept11.asp?Page=Story&PersonID=103966</a></b><br></center> <br> Links: <a href="http://www.plumsite.com/johnperry.html" target="_blank"><FONT color="#000000">www.plumsite.com/johnperry.html</a> </FONT></center></TD></TR> <tr><td> <center> <table width="700" bgcolor="1C1C1C"><tr><td> <br><a name="mpc"></a><center> <br> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/mikecolbert7.jpg"> <br> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/mikecolbert6.jpg"> <br><br> <br> <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NfauF3B03GE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NfauF3B03GE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> <br> <br><br> <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dt5BuPsI2w0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dt5BuPsI2w0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> <br><br> <br> <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6uk4JID865o&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6uk4JID865o&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> <br><br> <br><br> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/j-e-m2.jpg"> <br><br> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/ymjmj2.jpg"><br><br> <font face="calibri" color="white"> John W. Perry (tall fellow in white shirt, eating a slice of honeydew melon) <br> Mike Colbert (fellow with camera in blue shirt, chatting with Mei Li) <br> <br> <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/jwpmc_3a.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/jwpmc_3b.jpg" border="1"></a></center> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/jwpmc_3a.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="calibri" color="grey">CLICK FOR CLOSE UP</a></font> <br> <br><center> <font face="calibri" color="white"> They were the best of friends. Two of thousands... <br>Murdered on 11 Sept 2001. &nbsp; Let them be remembered. <br><br> <br> <center> <hr width="88"></center> <br> <br><br> <font face="calibri" color="white"> John W. Perry <br> <br> <br> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/john_perry_wtc.JPG" border="1"></a></center> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/john_perry.JPG" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="calibri" color="grey">CLICK FOR CLOSE UP</a></font> <br> <br><center> <br> <font face="calibri" color="white"> Michel P. Colbert <br> <br><br> <img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/michel_colbert_wtc.JPG" border="1"></a></center> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/michel_colbert_wtc.JPG" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="calibri" color="grey">CLICK FOR CLOSE UP</a></font> <br><br> <ul> <font size="2"> The WTC memorial. Photos taken by our friend George Sava <br>who - like this web sites' author - was an eye witness to the horrific destruction of the WTC on 9/11 in NYC. </font></ul> </center> <br><br> <center> <hr width="88"></center> <br> <br> <br> <center> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6c9tbzXDLCo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br><br> <br> <center><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_France" target="_blank"><font face="calibri" color="white">The future President of France<br> Nicolas Sarkozy</a>, pays his respects, in 2006<br> just before he was elected. (2007)<br><br> Here he is walking up the steps of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_Roman_Catholic_Church,_New_York" target="_blank"><font face="calibri" color="white">St. Peter's Church</a> in Manhattan, with his wife <br> at a special Mass for the NYPD police officers who were killed. </font> <br><br> <br> <hr width="88"></center> <br> <br> <br> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Nm8MZ_m_IHo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br> <br> <br> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/25yEZhsaFsQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br> <br><br> John was "immortalized" by being featured on "on life to live"<br> as he was an avid actor and "extra" on several films and shows. <br><br> <br> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/104Z3QCyXSI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br> <br><br> <br> <br> <center> <hr width="88"></center> <br><br> <br>In lower Manhattan. <br> <br> <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHvcUTVUVM0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHvcUTVUVM0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> <br> <br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_in_Light" target="_blank"><font face="calibri" color="white">Tribute in Light memorial to the WTC deceased</a></font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g9F2RETxhCY&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g9F2RETxhCY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> <br> <br> <br> <br> <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q-yT1xHNG3c&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q-yT1xHNG3c&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> <br><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_flame" target="_blank"><font face="calibri" color="white">Eternal Flame</a></font> <br> <br><a name="johnjenkins"></a> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/johnjenkins.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/johnjenkins_a.jpg" border="1"></a></center> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/wtc_files/johnjenkins_a.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="calibri" color="grey">CLICK FOR CLOSE UP</a></font> <br><ul> <font face="calibri" color="white"> A cousin of someone who died on 9/11 points to her relative's name on a commemorative wall near Battery Park in downtown Manhattan on 11 Sept. 2009. His name was John Jenkins, and was on board AA Flight 11. She asked that a copy of this photo be sent to John Jenkins relatives - in remembrance. </center></font> </ul> <br> </td></tr> </table><br> <br> <table width="600" bgcolor="#ADD8E6" border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2"><tr><td> <font size="1"> <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/sefco_links/culture2010.htm#farewell" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Fare Well</a>, to our friends, family, loved ones.</font></a> <br> <br> <br><br><font size="2"><ul>For those, who have passed before us...<br> Those, lost on 11 Sept, and others<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; ...at other times of our lives.<br><br>" May their memories be eternal<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;and may they rest in peace. "</font><br><br></font><br> <font size="1"> <a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/memory/claudia_godfrey.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Claudia Godfrey</font></a>, August 29 1957-August 6 1994<br> Marie F. Quinn, July 4 1914-September 10 2000<br> Alexandra Roberts (<a href="http://www.thebest-of.info/jq/alie.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">ARQ</font></a>) July 1 1982-July 16 2010 <br>Mr. Joseph F. Quinn, August 5 1917-August 25 2011 </font> </ul> </td><td> <font size="2" color="#000000"><br> <center> <img src="http://www.sefco-export.com/mourn-1.jpg" align="center" border="0"></a> <br> <br><a href="http://www.sefco-export.com/robertburnsmourn.htm" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#000000"><b>A Dirge</b>, by Robert Burns</font></font></a><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">stanza fifty five </font>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> <font size="1">"<a href="http://www.sefco-export.com/robertburnsmourn.htm#54" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="#000000">Man's inhumanity to man<br>Makes countless thousands mourn</a>" </ul></font></font> </center> <br> </td></tr></table> <br> </center> </td></tr> </TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><br> </BODY></HTML>