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Friday, October 21, 2022
Alert Engine, Hook, Ladder and Hose Co., No. 1, Inc.
555 Middle Neck Road
Great Neck , New York, United States
Friday
21
October
Firematic Service
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Friday, October 21, 2022
Alert Engine, Hook, Ladder and Hose Co., No. 1, Inc.
555 Middle Neck Road
Great Neck, New York, United States
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Louis Pillari posted a condolence
Thursday, October 27, 2022
We would like to express our sincere condolences to your family. It has been our privilege to assist you during this very difficult time. If there is anything further we can do we are here for you.
Lou Pillari, & Staff
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Phil Brodsky lit a candle
Saturday, October 22, 2022
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Billy Brodsky lit a candle
Saturday, October 22, 2022
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"A flowne sheate. A faire winde. A boune voyage."
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Jeane Tornatore Brodsky uploaded photo(s)
Friday, October 21, 2022
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TJ Hynes uploaded photo(s)
Friday, October 21, 2022
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Not sure where it came from... but when faced with an obstacle, we would say "Lesser men have done greater things," To this day I use thar quote and always think of David. A great man. His inspiration will live on, but he will be missed.
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Nina Marousek uploaded photo(s)
Friday, October 21, 2022
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I met David about 10 years ago at the Bridgeport airport. Since then we met many times at an assortment of aviation gatherings. I came to know him as a kind and wonderful friend whose interests, knowledge and activities ran deep. My deepest condolences to Diane and family. I miss him already.
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Friday, October 21, 2022
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Jeane Tornatore Brodsky uploaded photo(s)
Friday, October 21, 2022
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Jeane Tornatore Brodsky lit a candle
Friday, October 21, 2022
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David was a kind and good friend to many of us for many, many years. He was sort of an enigma; you either got him or you didn't. But when you did, you could appreciate, love, and depend on him so very much. It took me a few to "get" him, and when I did, I appreciated and understood him more and more as the years went on. When he married Diane, he changed for the better. She was a wonderful supporter and influence on his life, and I thank her forever for that. I grieve for her more than I grieve for all of us. After surviving cancer, with Diane's support, dying in this fashion is shocking. Thank God it was merciful, quick, and fast. I used to take a lot of pictures of all of us in the day that I'd like to share, especially with Diane not being from Great Neck. Unfortunately, David was going to help me organize and upload the tons of pictures I have for all to access. Talked a lot about it but never got to doing it. So here, I share a few of my pictures with all of you. God bless you, David. Rest in peace. I love and will miss you so very much. Thank you, Diane, and I love you so very much for taking such good care of David. I sign off with a Lakota prayer used when my dad passed recently. "Grandfather sky, may your songs of the winds and clouds sweep the pain and sadness out of my friends' hearts; as they hear those songs, let them know the spirits who are with those songs are at peace." Love and peace in your hearts, souls and minds to all. Listen to the songs of the winds and clouds and may we all hear David and remember him always. Tanto amore a tutti voi.
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Nicholas Godilo-Godlevsky uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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Dave and Diane at my wedding in 2006.
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Nicholas Godilo-Godlevsky uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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I met Dave in 1996 when he first started working as a software engineer at the same company (Mobius) I was working at. A big bald guy with a big mustache, he did not look like your typical software engineer, and he wasn’t. He wasn’t typical in any way. I admired him for the way he lived his life: if he wanted to do something, he did it. He wanted to be a sailor, so he learned to sail; he wanted to be a martial artist, so he learned martial arts; he wanted to fly airplanes, so he learned to be a pilot. He was an electrical engineer before learning to be a software engineer, and he was a great colleague for the 24 years I worked with him, and a great friend for that time and for the two years since I retired. The breadth of his life experience was astonishing: he sailed a boat to Cuba; was a sous chef at a restaurant; worked as a submarine technician in the Gulf of Mexico; and he helped land an airplane that was literally on fire. After 9/11 he learned he was too old to join the armed forces, so he did the next best thing: he joined the fire department and became a first responder, until he finally became Captain of his department. He was a pragmatic libertarian with an active mind; I could just as easily talk to him about software, quantum physics, or classic rock music. He was a real original, and I will miss him dearly. RIP, Dave.
Here's a not-too-old photo of us at a recent company event; one of countless meals we shared over the years.
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Jeffrey B. Chipetine uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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Donald Caetano posted a condolence
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
David was always willing to serve others. He was a great neighbor and was quick to help when called upon. A few years ago, our carbon monoxide alarm started going off unexpectedly. I called David and asked him what we should do. He literally came over in a matter of minutes to assess the situation and make sure everyone and everything was safe. He helped us figure out what was causing the issue and what to do to fix it. That’s the kind of man he was. He cared about the safety and well-being of others. May you rest peacefully, David. Diane—we’re here for you in any way you need.
Patty and Don
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Kari Jackson uploaded photo(s)
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Oh David I will miss you so much. What a wonderful man. Diane and Jeffrey I am so sorry. Here he is at his desk at Mobius in 2002.
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John Berenzy posted a condolence
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
David was a good man . He cared about people. He was a good husband and a true spirit. I loved him as I love his wife my sister Diane . He is an inspiration and forever in my heart.
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Jeffrey B. Chipetine posted a condolence
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
“Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories, so many bad times endured together, so many quarrels, reconciliations, heartfelt impulses. Friendships like that cannot be reconstructed. If you plant an oak, you will hope in vain to sit soon under its shade in the afternoon.
For such is life. We grow rich as we plant through the early years, but then come the years when time undoes our work and cuts down our trees. One by one our comrades deprive us of their shade, and within our mourning we always feel now the secret grief of growing old.
If I search among my memories for those whose taste is lasting, if I write the balance sheet of the moments that truly counted, I surely find those that no fortune could have bought me. You cannot buy the friendship of a companion bound to you forever by ordeals endured together.”
---Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “Wind, Sand and Stars….”
Good people are inevitably drawn to those that set a bar by their actions. We look to those who show a depth that mirrors our expectations. We look for signs that perhaps lay nascent within ourselves. We seek those with traits that promise potential.
Teamwork is Dreamwork. Few people believed in that motto as much as did David. If he was leading the team, you could be sure the path would be righteous, and if part of a team, he made certain to earn his place amongst his fellows.
People of consequence understand that ‘Discipline, Character, and Trust’, while mere words to the weak, are the principles on which the strong base their lives. Those words form a foundation that allows an absolute confidence in a team-mate’s integrity, and it is that confidence that brings them through scenarios that would make lesser individuals cower in fear.
Seven Years ago, David and I saved each other’s lives. Training, discipline, and absolute trust carried the day. We walked out of a burning aircraft wreck without so much as a hangnail. We took the airplane fire in-stride. Just another story we shared in common. A story that was recalled from time to time, when the hours went late. A story for a lifetime, or in our case, two lifetimes.
When we lose a team-mate, a soul-mate, or a friendship that was forged in fire, our hearts break, for the fragile threads that connect our kindred spirits are challenged. And yet with their loss, it is natural to ask if the courage we found in ourselves, the courage they brought out, is somehow now on a foundation less secure.
David was generous, loyal beyond belief, and stone-solid reliable. On any matter in which there was an ethical question, one always knew on what side David would come down. We were truly privileged to have been in his circle. He will continue to influence the rest of my days.
He was very brave, and we will always be so proud of him. There is a hole in my heart, but there’s the joy of having had so wonderful a person in my life that I cannot help but be forever grateful.
I am grateful especially to Diane for her friendship, and her generosity in sharing David with us so selflessly.
I’ll miss him greatly, and hold his memories close forever.
David was the friend we all would hope to be.
---Jeffrey B. Chipetine
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The family of David R. Hertz uploaded a photo
Monday, October 17, 2022
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