My Dad, Chris and me in front of the “Teaching Character Through Sport” award display
three of us the chance to see that wonderful year, I will think he had to attend what my dad
the new Hall of Fame facility, about our September trip to now calls, “the best school
one of the many impressive West Point just as much as our for leadership in the United
improvements made on post in phenomenal August in Beijing. States.”
the six years since our last visit. The truth is, in my mind, those It is a great feeling to think
And I have to mention how two trips are inextricably about the fact that the two
neat it was for me personally to linked. In Beijing, I saw my most important men in my
see Chris’s name on an Army dad’s dream come true. But, on life both came from this place
Basketball timeline positioned the trip to the Academy, I saw and, admittedly, I wondered
just above a large photo of my how that dream became even if, 35 years from now, Chris
dad. a possibility. I could see so and I would bring our children
Ok, I know, I have – quite clearly the connection between there to show them where their
literally – been all over the my dad’s Olympic experience father learned to be a leader.
map with this article. And, and the values and work It was one of those moments
yes, perhaps I have been more ethic instilled in him at West that so obviously linked the
personal and familiar than Point. I felt thankful that my past to the present in my mind
usual. But I do have a point. grandparents had the foresight and made me wonder, with
And it is this: for the rest of my to aggressively encourage overwhelming gratitude, how I
life, I will always remember their 18-year-old son to take ever got to be so lucky.
2008. And when I look back on advantage of the opportunity
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