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View a eulogy for Richard Raymond Steinke, USMA '62, who passed away on April 22, 2020.

Richard Raymond Steinke

West Point, 1962

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by john e condron on July 6, 2020:

Dick and I were classmates in the same platoon at the USMA Prep School in 1957-58. I'll always remember we were on a "detail" scrubbing the dayroom floor when his beloved Milwaukee Braves clinched the '57 world series. A ground ball to Eddie Mathews for the final out and he threw his scrub brush into the air. "Stinky was a man of principles and I'll always respect him for that.

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