THE HEARTBREAKING deaths of JDF Major Bonnie-Paul Williams and Captain Blake Roper within a week of each other earlier this month, was yet another example of this country losing its best and brightest young people. Both men, whom I served with and.
AN EXCEPTIONAL individual who has left an indelible mark on our hearts and the legacy of Wolmer’s High School for Boys is how Duane Extol remembered his classmate Captain Blake James Roper during the thanksgiving service for his life at National.
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Judy Buddensick has been sponsoring midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy for more 20 years. She officially started with the class of 2003. (Heather Mongilio, The Capital/TNS)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Tribune News Service) âOne wall in Judy Buddensickâs home is covered in pictures.
Men and women in uniforms smile from their frames. A few items of military memorabilia accompany them on the walls. Challenge coins in a case. A folded flag in another.
The men and women are Buddensickâs sponsor sons and daughters over the years. And itâs been many years.
Theyâre her heroes, she said in a text message showing off the wall of frames.
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