Overall view of the interior of the AIRMAN Memorial Chapel showing family, friends and shipmates attending a memorial service for LT. CDR. J. Stacy Bates and LT. Graham Alden Higgins. Bates and Higgins, attached to Fighter Squadron Two One Three (VF-213), died when the F-14 Tomcat aircraft they were flying crashed near Nashville, Tennessee while returning from a cross-country flight on January 29, 1996