I am part of a generation that when we pass, will have the last memories of hearing your voice on the radio, on television and it not be a documentary or a You Tube embed. Small children that terrible day when we...lost you.
You were history; you were courage; you were hope.
Like any man, you had your flaws, and that made you the more accessible; your achievements all the more possible, and the excuses to not follow your example in our own lives to make a positive difference hollow and impotent. As my dean of pledges and Kappa frat brother often says: "Excuses don't excuse: they just explain." (Dwayne K. Jones, Gamma Lambda, Huston-Tillotson University)
Like your support to the idea of us in the future in Star Trek, we tried to embody that hope in every class we tackled, every Calculus, Physics and Engineering problem we solved: we strove to make you proud of us, despite the fact you were here, and then gone so soon.
Happy birthday sir, and THANK YOU!
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Reggie Goodwin, Engineering Physics graduate, '84, North Carolina A and T State University, Greensboro, NC. Aggie Pride!
Reggie Goodwin, Engineering Physics graduate, '84, North Carolina A and T State University, Greensboro, NC. Aggie Pride!
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