Friday, January 10, 2025

Memorial for Coronado-based pilots held on USS Midway

Six-year-old Anthony Jones dispatched a final email to his father after his dad’s Navy helicopter crashed into the Red Sea.

“I hope I meet you in heaven one day, but it will be a long time before that happens,” Anthony wrote. “I think you are watching me all day and all night, every day.

Anthony’s mother, Theresa Jones, read the email to more than 600 people at the Friday memorial service for Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones and Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Gibson, two Navy pilots lost in the Sept. 22 crash.

Continue reading the entire Union-Tribune San Diego article here.



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Originally from upstate New York, Dani Schwartz has lived in Coronado since 1996. She is happy to call Coronado home and to have raised her children here. In her free time she enjoys reading, exercising, trying new restaurants, and just walking her dog around the "island." Have news to share? Send tips or story ideas to: [email protected]

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