Officer: Midshipman murdered in crash was marvelous man, A U.S. Maritime Academy sailor killed in the current week's Amtrak crash was a modest and conscious rising star who propelled others and "put everybody before himself," weepers said Friday at his memorial service.
Roughly 150 comrades of Justin Zemser's from the foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, joined relatives and understudies from Zemser's New York City secondary school for the 20-year-old's memorial service on Long Island.
The sophomore was venturing out from the foundation to his home in the Rockaways area of Queens when he was killed in Tuesday's wrecking in Philadelphia. He was one of eight individuals murdered.
"My whole school group is crushed, the group of Rockaway is crushed, the Naval Academy is crushed," said Andrew Wettstein, a science instructor at Beach Channel High School, from where Zemser graduated. "He was a light."
Zemser's boss at the Naval Academy, Marine Capt. Schnaps Soublet, said before the customary Jewish memorial service started at the Boulevard-Riverside-Hewlett Chapel that the single word to depict Zemser was "humble."
"For how gifted he was ethically, rationally, physically you would never know it. He was just so modest," she said.
Aurora Perez, 17, who was a green bean when Zemser was a senior at Beach Channel High School, said Zemser frequently came back to address understudies.
"He just advised everybody to, you know, go after the stars and never abandon your fantasies," she said.
Perez said everybody at Beach Channel admired Zemser, including instructors.
"He was cherishing, mindful," she said. "He put everybody before himself. ... He simply thought about other individuals rather than his own life. In the event that he could spare anybody on that prepare, I know he would have."
Zemser was an individual from the Navy sprint football group, the Jewish Midshipman Club and the Semper Fi Society, a Marine Corps club.
Cantor Chaim Shindler, who said he gave a youthful Zemser Jewish right of passage lessons, portrayed his previous understudy as a "young fellow that carried on with his life, each snippet of his young life, without bounds and made numerous companions and associations with individuals from varying backgrounds."
Roughly 150 comrades of Justin Zemser's from the foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, joined relatives and understudies from Zemser's New York City secondary school for the 20-year-old's memorial service on Long Island.
The sophomore was venturing out from the foundation to his home in the Rockaways area of Queens when he was killed in Tuesday's wrecking in Philadelphia. He was one of eight individuals murdered.
"My whole school group is crushed, the group of Rockaway is crushed, the Naval Academy is crushed," said Andrew Wettstein, a science instructor at Beach Channel High School, from where Zemser graduated. "He was a light."
Zemser's boss at the Naval Academy, Marine Capt. Schnaps Soublet, said before the customary Jewish memorial service started at the Boulevard-Riverside-Hewlett Chapel that the single word to depict Zemser was "humble."
"For how gifted he was ethically, rationally, physically you would never know it. He was just so modest," she said.
Aurora Perez, 17, who was a green bean when Zemser was a senior at Beach Channel High School, said Zemser frequently came back to address understudies.
"He just advised everybody to, you know, go after the stars and never abandon your fantasies," she said.
Perez said everybody at Beach Channel admired Zemser, including instructors.
"He was cherishing, mindful," she said. "He put everybody before himself. ... He simply thought about other individuals rather than his own life. In the event that he could spare anybody on that prepare, I know he would have."
Zemser was an individual from the Navy sprint football group, the Jewish Midshipman Club and the Semper Fi Society, a Marine Corps club.
Cantor Chaim Shindler, who said he gave a youthful Zemser Jewish right of passage lessons, portrayed his previous understudy as a "young fellow that carried on with his life, each snippet of his young life, without bounds and made numerous companions and associations with individuals from varying backgrounds."
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