“Home they brought her warrior dead She nor swooned, nor uttered cry.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s words rang true even over two centuries after they were written as the late Wing Commander Darryl Castelino’s wife Jyothi took to the podium as part of the funeral service of her late husband on Sunday afternoon. Castelino was commandeering the Mi-17 chopper that crashed while rescuing stranded victims of the Uttarakhand floods on Tuesday, June 25. In a short speech, she paid tribute to her late husband describing the day she met him as the day when her ‘dreams came true’. “He worked (tirelessly) not only to see his family happy but also added value to (the lives) of his colleagues,” she said to a packed church, serenely self-possessed. Jyothi continued, “My darling husband Darryl, I shall treasure every moment of the last ten years for the rest of my life. Our two children will miss you but I shall take care of them until we meet again,” her voice almost losing its composure towards the end as she walked away from the pulpit.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:12:53 +0000
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