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Perry on how distanced from the action one is aboard ship compared to the Army during the Gulf War. (RNM)

“Its funny but you go out onto the Upper Deck and it can be a lovely clear day and its just you and the sea. I mean its so distant from any sort of uh…I mean its not like being a soldier and rolling through Kuwait and seeing tanks and bodies all over the place, and we saw some bodies that surfaced from the patrol boats that had been sunk. There were quite a few of those floating around a couple of weeks after they had been sunk, but other than that you are just so distanced.”

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