Nicholas J. Jabara
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| Age: |
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22 |
| Hometown: |
Colbert, WA |
| Date of Death: |
1/31/02 |
| Incident Location: |
Spofford, Texas |
| Branch of Military: |
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Air Force |
| Rank: |
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| Unit: |
84th Flying Training Wing |
| Unit's Base: |
Del Rio, Texas |
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Jabara was remembered by family and friends as an avid reader and someone who loved to dance, sing, fish and tell stories. In the summer of 1987, he told people how he caught a 26-inch northern pike, a big deal because it was a big fish. "But that fish kept on getting bigger and bigger by the end of the summer," said his younger brother, Ben, who tried to inject a bit of humor at the service. That's the way his brother would have wanted it, he said. Jabara's mother read her son's favorite poem, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," about a man who decides to take "the road less traveled" in life - in this case that of a fighter pilot. She asked that friends and family try not to be bitter in the wake of her son's death and to carry on. Her son would have wanted it that way, she said.