Edwin H. Simmons Jr.: Keeper of the Keys
By Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.)
Brigadier General Ed Simmons, the retired Director Emeritus of Marine Corps History, died at home in Alexandria. Virginia, on 5 May 2007. He had been a Marine for 65 of his 85 years. For a quarter-century he was the ever-vigilant "Keeper of the Keys," the corporate memory and living repository of the official Marine Corps story.
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