Tuesday, April 6, 2010
To the Costello family, Deana, Casey, Katie, Kristin, and myself send our sincerest condolences. Our collective thoughts and prayers are with all of you. I know, first hand, how proud Bob was of his Navy service and experience, and it was clearly a bond I always shared with him. He was a red-white & blue patriot through and through. I remember giving Bob and MJ a ship's tour one time in Norfolk...upon stepping walking across the brow and coming aboard, his face was beaming with excitement, like a child on Christmas morning. He properly saluted the Ensign and Office of the Deck, and justifiably proud he correctly remembered the sequence of the honors rendered. Given time, he would have talked to every sailor on the ship. To borrow a famous Navy phrase, I wish him "Fair Winds, and Following Seas."