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View a eulogy for Robert Leslie Olson, USMA '87, who passed away on February 12, 2001.

Robert Leslie Olson

West Point, 1987

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Deac Heilig on February 11, 2005:

It's been a long time since that bitterly cold day in Minnesota and I have had much time to reflect on my relationship with RobO. RobO has a place in my house in Florida...he sits in overwatch of my family in a place where I think he would want to be...on the mantle of my bar. The frame is not expensive - he would want it that way - and as I pass him each day, he reminds me to be a better person. Four years ago I was brought to my knees as I read the email from Bill Fuller on my blackberry. The pain subsides each year a little at a time...and when I see my son, I see Holly holding him as I cut the cord at Tripler Army Hospital in October of 1993. I remember being in awe as a whole town mourned a truely great and wonderful dad, soldier, husband and friend...i still miss him, always...


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