{"id":396,"date":"2019-07-30T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=396"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:36:19","slug":"30th-reunion-event-walk-of-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"30th Reunion Event: Walk of the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nWe will be having an event, the Walk of the Fallen\/Trail of the Fallen, on Sunday of our reunion (27 October), from 1pm-4pm. Some recent classes have added this event to their itinerary, with great success. Our host for this event is Colonel Hank Keirsey (who some of you may have had as a History P, when we were cadets). His house is at the trail head, and we can use parking along his property, etc. My son and I executed a TEWT (if that is still a thing), this past Sunday.&nbsp;<strong>Please strive to attend this event!<\/strong><br>I will provide more details later, but here are a few bullet points about the event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Classmates volunteer to \u201csponsor\u201d one of our fallen classmates<ul><li>More information on how to \u201csponsor\u201d, in an upcoming communication<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Sponsors paint a rock, to memorialise the fallen classmate<\/li><li>We meet at Colonel Keirsey\u2019s house (MineTorn Road &#8211; If you remember that area)<\/li><li>We have a forum to say a few things (or not) about our fallen classmates<\/li><li>Those who want to walk the trail, walk and carry the rocks up the trail<\/li><li>People are also welcome to stay at Colonel Kiersey\u2019s,&nbsp;while other Classmates conduct the walk<ul><li>Note &#8211; the walk is a little challenging, expect to have to scurry up rocks and a steep trail (Probably about 1 Kilometer long)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>We place the rocks on the cairn<\/li><li>The views of the Hudson, at the cairn are spectacular<\/li><li>Beer and light refreshments will be served at Colonel Kiersey\u2019s&nbsp;<\/li><li>A campfire\/bonfire will also be at the base camp<\/li><li>As we have had classmates who have become one of the \u201cstatistics\u201d of suicide, I suggest those who attend this event join TeamRWB (it\u2019s free and you will receive a TeamRWB shirt), and we wear our TeamRWB shirts for the event.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamrwb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.teamrwb.org<\/a><\/li><li>My son will take a pictures\/movies of the even, with his drone<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please view the following video:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IV0Ge6q2Vds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IV0Ge6q2Vds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be having an event, the Walk of the Fallen\/Trail of the Fallen, on Sunday of our reunion (27 October), from 1pm-4pm. Some recent classes have added this event to their itinerary, with great success. Our host for this event is Colonel Hank Keirsey (who some of you may have had as a History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reunion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}