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Navy aviation training school in Memphis, Tenn. Theroux said he feared he


would never see his friend again. However, as luck would have it, they both were eventually sta- tioned in Whidbey Island, Wash. “The odds of that happening,”


Theroux said. “Of all the places you could be stationed all over the world.” They took to the seas on a Far


East cruise and shared many ex- periences together. In September 1964, Theroux and Chiocca went


back to their native homes, Min- nesota and Pennsylvania, respec- tively. Theroux went to work for print


manufacturers Addressograph/ Multigraph before later opening his own sporting goods store, and Chiocca joined United Airlines for 37 years. Theorux admitted he wondered


about Chiocca’s whereabouts of- ten, but never took the initiative to reconnect. It took some 21st century tech-


nology to get these two 20th cen- tury Navy men back together.


Chiocca said his wife persuaded


him to get on the Internet which helped in locating Theroux. He placed a call last fall, but did not leave a message. Theroux may have never known of Chiocca’s call if he had not caved to his wife’s request for caller ID. Now that the communication


lines are open between the two, they each were overwhelmed with the series of events that reunited these two forever-linked individ- uals. “A miracle brought us togeth- er,” Chiocca said.


Doug Theroux, left, with Jack Chiocca in April at Theroux’s home.


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