William Lloyd Welter

West Point, 1955

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by TOMMY WEST on March 25, 2009:

William Lloyd Welter went to his Maker yesterday. What a shock! We all know that we are going to go "sometime" but in Bill's case it just didn't seem possible. On the net regularly, at luncheons, driving the Bush Boat, on the court...never ending. And then a tendon pull...no problem. PROBLEM! and he was gone just like that. It makes you step back and realize how short our time is and how dear our close friends like Bill are/were. Bill, affectionately known as "little w", and I followed each other our entire careers even before West Point. First at Stewart Field where he came to take the entrance exam, then to flight school together, then at Blacksburg for a Masters degree, then the Test Pilot School, then Eustis and Edwards AFB. We even flew the some of same experimental planes. Finally we would tangle on the net with messages too long or wrong size and he'd give me a "STRIKE ONE!" I'm going to miss all that and the countless ways he enriched my/our lives. But with much sadness in my heart I think only of joy for him. He has won the good fight and finished the race. He now has gripped hands with the LONG GRAY LINE of West Pointers past and we know he will be running the heavenly net until we too arrive. Farewell little "w". You hit a home run with the Lord! Your Classmate Cato :(

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