7 February 2018 WRIC interview https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-state-police-dedicate-aviation-hangar-to-fallen-lt-jay-cullen_20180326073014281/1078236563
“We lost 2 great friends and patriots today. Berke and Jay will be greatly missed. TY for your service to VA.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jay and Berke, both of whom were our close friends and trusted members of our team. Jay has flown us across the commonwealth for more than three and a half years. Berke was devoted to our entire family as part of our Executive Protective Unit team for the past three years.
This is a devastating loss for their families, the Virginia State Police, and the entire commonwealth. Out hearts go out to their wives and children, and we stand by to support them during this difficult time. These heroes were a part of our family and we are simply heartbroken.”
12 August 2017 https://twitter.com/TerryMcAuliffe/status/896558939625619462, highlighted 13 August 2017 by Bustle https://www.bustle.com/p/who-was-berke-mm-bates-charlottesville-protests-are-linked-to-a-helicopter-crash-76210
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American businessman and politician 1957Related quotes
2016, Convention (August 2016)
Context: We’re one team. One American family. When any member of our family is suffering, we’ve got to be there for each other.... We have to keep on uniting as one team. As one people. As one nation.
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“Can we allow our hearts to treat our people as members of your great family?”
The first speech at LDP congress
Context: You are very clear with the characteristics of your challengers. You grasp the hearts of your challengers and explicitly compare your hearts with those of the challengers. You are confident of the concepts, abilities to form the concepts and conceptual gaps of your challengers. Finally, I have a piece of concept in the form of both question and suggestion and share with all compatriots throughout the country: Can we allow our hearts to treat our people as members of your great family?
Variant: Simi? What was it you told me once about families?
We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.
Source: Bad Moon Rising
Statement on significations in his painting "Reaching for the Stars", at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, Florida, USA.
After the moon, art is his mission (1997)
2000s, 2003, Columbia space shuttle disaster (February 2003)
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY