View a eulogy for Richard Aspinall Hawley, USMA '68, who passed away on May 6, 1970.
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Richard Aspinall Hawley
West Point, 1968
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Bill Miller '68 on March 12, 2008:
| I didn't know Rick personally, but knew of him as a classmate. I always admired his determination and effort to graduate, even though he had many chances to fail. Several years ago I was walking through the cemetary at West Point, looking at classmates tombstones and when I saw Rick's I was moved in a way I have never been. To think of all the effort that he gave to earn the chance to serve in Vietnam as a West Point Graduate and to be killed less than two years after graduation marked him as a distinguished graduate in my mind. Every time I return to the cemetary I make a point of spending a few quite moments at his grave. I never knew him but I feel a strong admiration and respect for this distinguished graduate. |
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