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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
Ms. Kimberly Jackson
In celebration of his 400th birthday, an amazing man, friend, husband and father with a love of aviation. Bill earned his pilot's license at 18 in the Cessna 152 at Wheeler Air Force Base. He continued to soar at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and immediately after graduating joined the US Navy as a pilot. Bill served his country in the C2A Greyhound as a pilot and instructor at NAS Cubi Point; NAS Miramar and in the Gulf War. He continues to fly as a 757 pilot with Northwest Airlines.
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. - Sir Walter Raleigh
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