“Our state police and law enforcement family at-large are mourning this tragic outcome to an already challenging day,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent. “Lieutenant Cullen was a highly-respected professional aviator and Trooper-Pilot Bates was a welcome addition to the Aviation Unit, after a distinguished assignment as a special agent with our Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Their deaths are a tremendous loss to our agency and the Commonwealth.-VSP Public Relations
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar–T.S.Eliot
Tilly is in post-op day 9, the 9th day of restrained activity. Restraining a puppy, push down the energy in one area it will manifest somewhere else. She broke bad on breaking bad.
I planted three long leaf pines a year ago in the northern extent of their ancestral home. They look like grass at first, after a number of years they make the jump skyward. My trio is jumping!
Tilly at the door of Georgetown Vet, 0728hrs. Surgery today. Complicated feeling surrounding that but her 9 brothers will carry on the genetics. Prayers please!She likes the personnel at Georgetown, enters willingly.
