“My dream was his dream,“ says Donna Diamond of her husband of 10 years, Capt. Dana Diamond
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- More than a month after Capt. Dana Diamond died in a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Ky., his widow is remembering their final moments together
- Diamond worked at UPS for 37 years as a pilot and previously served as commissioner and fire chief of his local fire department in Texas
- Minutes before the deadly crash, he texted his wife
On the night before a crashing UPS cargo plane rained fire and devastation across a swath of Louisville, Ky. — killing 14 — Capt. Dana Diamond planted flowers with his wife, Donna, to encourage more butterflies to flit across their 132-acre ranch in Caldwell, Texas.
“We did good. We’ve made a beautiful home,” Dana, 62, told his wife before he left to serve as the international relief officer on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 jet that was bound for Hawaii on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
“We’ve got so much more to do,” Dana said…