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| "When once you have tasted flight, you will always walk the earth, with your eye's turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you will long to return"... Leonardo Da Vinci
This is the last photo of Barry Loughrey, taken on 13th June 2000 in Nashville, celebrating Brendan's 30th birthday, only four short nights later, Barry was gone.
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Brendan and Barry loved to skydive and after a week on the jobsite (the finest Irish construction went into building country singer Alan Jackson's new 26,000sq ft home in Franklin, TN). They'd drive to Tullahoma, TN, camp out at the Drop Zone and fling themselves from Cessna's at every opportunity. This photo was taken after their last skydive together. On the warm Tennessee evening of June 8th 2000 the brothers, filmed by Dave U., (photo-left), planned a hysterical but still pointlessly dangerous "Rodeo" jump at 16,000ft from the "Point Break" movie plane (the McDonald-Douglas DC3 in the background) in honor of their mother Patricia (Patsy) Loughrey who sadly had to leave the boys 20 years earlier due to Multiple Sclerosis on June 8th 1980. |
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| Barry Loughrey was laid to rest beside his fraternal-twin sister Catherine, who passed away only hours old, from S.I.D.S. and his mother Patricia who died in 1980, aged 45, from Multiple Sclerosis. They now lay motionless in Melmount Cemetery, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. This is a photo of an incredible little brother, Barry Patrick Loughrey on his 21st birthday, savagely taken from us by a drunk driver, aged only 27 years. See ya soon kid...
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