My Dad, Chris and me at the West Point Sports Hall of Fame
made their way both to and 4x400 relay teams come out husband in September, shortly
around China. When I think victorious, making their victory after returning from Beijing. It
about 2008 all of these stories laps around the stadium with had been six years since either
will come to mind. I will American flags draped across Chris or I had made the trip
remember the look on my dad’s their backs. I will remember over the mountain and through
face as all of his players placed the heart-wrenching emotion Stony Lonesome gate onto West
their gold medals around his my sisters and I felt as the Point. The brisk but beautifully
neck. I will remember riding gold medal basketball game, sunny weather brought back
in a cable car up to the Great and seemingly our father’s a flood of memories for both
Wall with Chris, my sister career, hung in the balance. I of us. The last time we were
Lindy, her husband Steve, and will remember that, when the there, Chris’s family and I were
their two-year-old son, Quin. players stood on the medal celebrating his graduation
I will remember our family stand and the Star-Spangled from the Academy. And now,
feeling adventurous enough to Banner played, Chris Bosh sang I had the opportunity to return
dine at an authentic Chinese and Dwyane Wade cried. Too with my two favorite guys,
restaurant and the way our many amazing memories, each both West Point graduates and
interpreter helped my rarely- one too precious to forget. former Army Basketball team
confused father painstakingly But there is another memory captains, and see the roots
navigate the menu. I will from 2008 that stands out as of their personal beginnings
remember sitting in the Bird’s equally precious: the trip that as well as so much of our
Nest stadium and watching I had the chance to take to country’s history. Anytime you
the USA men’s and women’s West Point with my father and are there as a non-graduate,
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