Bradford G Cochran 9/9/1950 to 9/15/2005
A son, a brother, a father, a mentor.
Brad Cochran led an extrodinary life which can never be fully accounted for here. In 2000 he was diagnosed with colon cancer and was only given a year or two at best. What he did next was unimaginable. He formed his own cancer research company called ACR ( Advanced Cancer Research) and scoured the Internet for source material. He studied and learned a great deal about so many things that when he called "actual" research facilities and pharmaceutical companies he was able to speak the lingo so well they believed him to be a researcher years in the industry.
His research brought him success and failures and in his travels met with many carrying the same burden. He counseled many, as was his way and even found paths for some to total remission against all odds and current medical procedures. For all that he selflessly helped, he never was bitter about not being able to cure himself. Through the many bacterial cultural spun up in the kitchen on a used eBay centerfuge, and research lab doctors meeting in secrecy from all over the globe. His cancer just was resistant to everything they tried.
But his life is not merely defined by the man he was at the end, but by the man he was and the oath he walked all the days of his life.
In his teen years at Sanford Highschool in York county Maine he was the bass guitarist Ina local band once called Nirvana then the confederate yankees. They played and won many if not all of the battles they entered and most notably one such battle of the bands in Mass. They showed up and set up yet only a handful of an audience arrived. It was then an event coordinator told them they had printed the wrong date on the flyers they were given. They played anyways, and played like they were in front of thousands. It was this performance they were approached by a talent agent and was offered to open for a band known as Jefferson Airship at a gathering of bands in a place called " Woodstock".
They did not go, as his life was calling him in a different direction.
In 1972 Brad entered the Maine State Police Academy and was president and valedictorian of his class. Over his 21 years as a Maine State Trooper he would work undercover with the Maine Drug Enforement Agency, was in charge of the SCUBA Dive team and developed and pioneered air surveillance techniques that were adopted nationally. Most notably toward the end of his career he was head of local law enforcement when George Bush Sr. would visit. Brad was the first to shake his hand when he landed and the last to shake his hand As president on Maine soil.
In 1992, he formed his own company to recycle printer cartridges, developing the early machines himself in the back room of the family home and long basement nights. In 1995 was named entrepreneur of the year by a prominent Maine magazine.
After his retirement in 1994 as Lieutenant of Troop A, he enjoyed his Harley ( inventing his own security alarm for it), playing on his bulldozer and continuing to fly whenever he had the chance. From landing a helicopter in the driveway to inventing better business methods, Brad didn't sit idle by and wait for life to come to him.
When he would come home he would say, " The Eagle has landed"
The Eagle has landed and is forever home- September 15, 2005
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