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Comments on: Helicopter pilot described as academically gifted, dedicated to service https://news.mst.edu/2015/05/helicopter-pilot-described-as-academically-gifted-dedicated-to-service/ Your source for the latest from Rolla Thu, 21 May 2015 15:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Trudy Smith https://news.mst.edu/2015/05/helicopter-pilot-described-as-academically-gifted-dedicated-to-service/#comment-58835 Thu, 21 May 2015 15:03:06 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=14128#comment-58835 This young man died the year I started working at Missouri S&T. He was a proud, young, Rolla Miner, Engineer, Marine, Pilot, Humanitarian. Gone too soon.

]]> By: James Van Acker https://news.mst.edu/2015/05/helicopter-pilot-described-as-academically-gifted-dedicated-to-service/#comment-58678 Tue, 19 May 2015 21:28:26 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=14128#comment-58678 To Chris’s family:
I am sorry for your loss of your son. What a wonderful man he was and trying to help those who couldn’t help themselves in Nepal. As a fellow alum and a fellow Miner FB Alumnus, I am very sorry for your loss and my continued prayers for those left behind!! May GOD protect him and may he be your guardian angel from Heaven.
Im so thankful he was fighting for our country to keep those like me and my girls and extended family FREE, he will NEVER be forgotten!!

Jim van Acker
BSCE’98
Miner FB 1992-1996 (offensive tackle)
Phi Kappa Theta Alum

]]> By: Dorji Tsering Sherpa https://news.mst.edu/2015/05/helicopter-pilot-described-as-academically-gifted-dedicated-to-service/#comment-58653 Mon, 18 May 2015 23:11:57 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=14128#comment-58653 May the soul of all the 8 who passed away in the remote hills of Nepal, find eternal peace. May the parents and the loved ones of the victims find strength to recover from this tragedy. Please do visit the place where it all happened and create a monument in fond memories of your Angel s. This is how we did when we 3 lost our daughters and son in a plane crash. Metta.

]]> By: Ashok Midha https://news.mst.edu/2015/05/helicopter-pilot-described-as-academically-gifted-dedicated-to-service/#comment-58652 Mon, 18 May 2015 19:21:26 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=14128#comment-58652 Chris Norgren, an exemplary student, team player and athlete, and one of S&T’s brightest stars, left his engineering position with a reputable aircraft company to join the USMC, so he could serve the nation and help humanity in more direct ways and follow his dream. He died, though very prematurely, doing just that, with the nobility with which he lived. Our thoughts and prayers, and deepest condolences, are with his very loving family.

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