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HONORED ON PANEL 28E, LINE 95 OF THE WALL
THOMAS JAMES CHIMINELLO
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THOMAS J CHIMINELLO
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POSTED ON 10.29.2009
POSTED BY: 60's Girl
Angel Day
On this your angel day I humbly give thanks for your service and sacrifice and with honor I leave you this poem . . .
A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam
And for a brief moment its glory
and beauty belong to our world
But then it flies again
And though we wish it could have stayed...
We feel lucky to have seen it.
~Author Unknown
A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam
And for a brief moment its glory
and beauty belong to our world
But then it flies again
And though we wish it could have stayed...
We feel lucky to have seen it.
~Author Unknown
POSTED ON 5.2.2004
POSTED BY: DAVE EASTMAN, OL 23,-24
Tom Chiminello
"Chiminooch" was a good friend and fellow member of my flight school class, 66-14B4 during 1966. He took a while to get to Viet Nam, and got there almost as I was leaving in October, 1967. We talked on the phone at Long Binh, and then I found out he had bought it by the time I returned to Fort Wolters, TX for flight instructor duties. He was a dear person, with puppy-dog eyes and a good buddy to be around. There have been quite a few times when I have mourned him over the years. A MedEvac pilot's life is most dangerous; especially with night-time rescues under hostile fire....