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We are convinced that had he not left us so early in life, Jake would have gone on to be a community leader inspiring and supporting those who he touched
A female singer’s live rendition of “Let It Be,” by The Beatles washed over a crowd of mourners inside a Dalton church as they followed the draped casket of Jake Galliher, the 24-year-old U.S. airman from Massachusetts killed in a November crash in Japan.
Six honor guard members Friday carried the remains of Air Force Staff Sergeant Jacob “Jake” Galliher in a casket draped with the American flag off a C-17 cargo plane at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee where members of his family and public officials, including Governor Maura Healey and US Representative Richard Neal, waited.
US Air Force Staff Sergeant Jacob M. Galliher was among eight airmen killed in an Osprey crash in Japan in November. The military has since grounded its fleet of the aircraft.
A search and rescue operation is underway for Jacob Galliher, 24, a military linguist and Taconic High School graduate. He was on a military aircraft that crashed off Japan during