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I hesitated to post this but after some thought...I decided I would.
A rather famous, but quiet, graduate of USMA, Class of 1950, Colonel David R. Hughes, lost his bride of 57 years this weekend. And the USMA community in Colorado, and members of USAFA/USMA on a different forum, share the pain of his loss.
The achievements of "Colonel Dave" as we refer to him are mighty, and yet many folks don't know of them. Try google...you'll be amazed!
But this forum is all about "the future" and the joys/pains/challenges of achieving academy entrance. We don't talk too much about "later in life..."
When I think of people that attended the various academies, and how I could learn from them, their careers, their decisions in crisis, their humor, I count Colonel Dave as one of those exemplars. And while I'm one of the MOST vocal, proud, graduates of USAFA, when I think of "amazing rep's" of "the service academies" I look to people like Dave Hughes...it's his kind, the living link to a proud past, that inspires, or should, the "new" members of that line...and yes, this member of the "long blue line..."
New USMA candidates, appointee's, "hopeful's"...you could do FAR worse than follow an example like Colonel David R. Hughes, USMA '50.
Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
A rather famous, but quiet, graduate of USMA, Class of 1950, Colonel David R. Hughes, lost his bride of 57 years this weekend. And the USMA community in Colorado, and members of USAFA/USMA on a different forum, share the pain of his loss.
The achievements of "Colonel Dave" as we refer to him are mighty, and yet many folks don't know of them. Try google...you'll be amazed!
But this forum is all about "the future" and the joys/pains/challenges of achieving academy entrance. We don't talk too much about "later in life..."
When I think of people that attended the various academies, and how I could learn from them, their careers, their decisions in crisis, their humor, I count Colonel Dave as one of those exemplars. And while I'm one of the MOST vocal, proud, graduates of USAFA, when I think of "amazing rep's" of "the service academies" I look to people like Dave Hughes...it's his kind, the living link to a proud past, that inspires, or should, the "new" members of that line...and yes, this member of the "long blue line..."
New USMA candidates, appointee's, "hopeful's"...you could do FAR worse than follow an example like Colonel David R. Hughes, USMA '50.
Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83