MAY 5 WAS A DARK, DOUR DAY as some 180 men out of the 1946 class of 1,000–500 members having passed away in the intervening years, including my late husband, Richard in 2002–made their early morning way into the chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy for a memorial service.
Navy Chaplain (retired) Alister Anderson, also of the Class of 1946, delivered the service speaking of Jesus walking on the sea (Matthew 14:22-23), as the large stained glass image of Jesus poised on pale blue waves looked down on the congregation. The chaplain spoke too of how here were the men who had learned the ways of war, learned how to command other men. He quoted Robert E. Lee saying at Fredericksburg, “It is well war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
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