Army Football

I had this email forwarded to me yesterday. I thought it was a pretty good commentary on our current Army football “challenges”.

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From: Dibella, Fred L NF-III 6 SVS/SVBG
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: This ain’t complicated, it just takes open eyes and balls

I am a former Army Colonel and a member of the class of 1969. Our class has the highest winning percentage of victories over Navy in all sports in West Point history. In football, we only lost once to Navy, we had a Sugar Bowl bid, and our HC was NCAA Coach of the Year. Incidentally, we ran a pre-cursor to the modern-day option offense. I think we know something about the subject of winning.

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Brian Freeman’s Last Mission

I was looking through Brian Freeman’s Eulogy the other day, and noticed a post by Bill Torrey. In the post Bill quotes a newspaper article written about Brian, and in the article a little Iraqi boy named Ali is mentioned. Ali was born with a hole in his heart; something he needed repaired to survive to adulthood. Brian took it upon himself to right this wrong — something that isn’t the least bit surprising to those who knew him. Read about it here.

HR 3884 - Captain Scott Corwin Armed Forces Protection Act

Welcome to 2008!

While recently getting the site re-organized, it struck me that I’ve never heard if the person who shot and killed Scott Corwin had ever been caught. After a quick search I found the Captain Scott Corwin Foundation’s website — and unfortunately the answer is no.

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