Officer Down Memorial Page

Trooper Jerry Hines, the first contact I had with you was during my 60th Basic Session at the Academy when you instructed classes for us. My last meeting with you was at Natural Bridge, Virginia when you picked me up at the Helicopter and took me to dinner, while I waited to fly the Governor back to Richmond. All my times in your presence, you were professional in your demeanor, as well as a True Virginia Gentleman! Jerry, you were a Trooper that not only the Virginia State Police could be proud of, but one that your fellow Troopers, as well as Troopers yet to come, could be very proud to follow!

Trooper Jerry Lynn Hines lived his life in the true meaning of a Gentleman, as defined by John Walter Wayland, but what I feel could also define a Virginia State Police Trooper, as "A Man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."

Trooper-Pilot David Nichols, retired
Virginia State Police Aviation
February 17, 2012

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