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View a eulogy for Gilbert Richard Collins, USMA '77, who passed away on August 22, 2008.

Gilbert Richard Collins

West Point, 1977

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Tom Watson on September 12, 2008:

Eulogies are especially difficult when it's a friend. Chip was a friend to all who knew him and a good and decent man devoted to God, Family and Country. I did not know Chip as a cadet but only after graduation. He was an uncommon friend to many, husband and father extraordinaire, and a man devoted to his God in service and in the way he pursued his life. The colorful stories of closer friends are not part of the chapter I remember about Chip. On that hot Texas day when we all said so long to Chip, there were many classmates from far and wide and a church full of people to pay their respects for a good man. We have lost an extraordinary friend much too soon.

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