View a eulogy for Richard William Thompson, USMA '66, who passed away on November 19, 1967.
Richard William Thompson
West Point, 1966
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by James H. Thompson Jr. on November 10, 2001:
| The Corps! Bareheaded, salute it, with eyes up, thanking our God, that we of the Corps are treading where they of the Corps had trod! They are here in ghostly assemblage! The MEN of the Corps long dead! And our hearts are standing ATTENTION! While we wait for their passing tread! We sons of today, we salute you! You sons of an earlier day! We follow, close order, behind you, where you had pointed the way! The Long Gray Line of us stretches through the years of a century told! And the last man feels to his marrow, the grip of your far-off hold! Grip hands with us now, though we see not, grip hands with us, strengthen our hearts, as the Long Line stiffens and straightens with the thrill that your presence imparts! Grip hands though it be from the shadows! While we swear, as you did of yore! Or living or dying to honor...THE CORPS! AND THE CORPS! AND THE CORPS! We salute you, Sir! Your devotion to DUTY...your devotion to HONOR...and ABOVE ALL!...your devotion to GOD and our COUNTRY...the land that you loved...the land of the Free, and the home of the Brave...will never...I say again...will NEVER be extinguished from our minds! |
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