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From: jreldridge

Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:31 PM

Subject: AAR Norman A. Racibor's Funeral

On Tuesday, 15 June 2004, in Scranton, PA a viewing was held for Norman from 1700-2000 hrs, Hugh and Cheryl Hubbard and Don and Cathy Snowhite were in attendance.

Norman looked great shirt, tie and his green blazer. Sitting up on the casket was his green special forces baseball hat that he always wore. A lot of pictures of Norman and his family were available, can you remember Norman when he was 180lbs. Any one who has a few pictures of Norman might want to bring them to Las Vegas for our Chapter get together. There were loads of flowers sent by Norms many friends and prominently displayed was the Chapter 43 arrangement.

Wednesday morning at a viewing for the family Les Silvernail and John and Kumi Eldridge joined the Hubbards and the Snowhites for the services and the motorcade to the church and then to the cemetery. At the cemetery Normans niece read a letter that was sent by Bill Freyser it was without a doubt the most moving tribute of the day. We left the cemetary and went to the churchmeeting hall where there was a great spread of food. Here we got to spend some time with Kaori, Bobby and his wife Nicole and meet the neighbors etc. Kaori was pretty broken up until this time but she settled down a little and we had a good visit.

We went back to the house where we met Diesel, a 165 lb Dobermann pinscher belonging to Normans son Bobby but he had been Normans close buddy during his last days. He kept looking around for his friend who did not return. Kumi got to spend some time alone with Kaori that was good for both of them Kumi had been a close friend for a long time. We left to catch our flight at 1700hrs it was tough to say sayo-nara.