Remembering September 11th

This photo was taken at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado last year when we were there for the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Board of Assistants meeting in Denver.  We took a few days to explore Colorado, where I have never been.  One of our stops was a few days in Colorado Springs.  The Air Force Academy was our first destination.  

This memorial is labeled "In Memory of Our Fellow Graduates Who Have Fallen in Battle".  It was our specific desire to see the carved name of Chuck Jones, who was Vincent's boss and co-worker, and who was on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11th, 2001.  Chuck not only was a co-worker, he was a 1974 graduate of the Air Force Academy, former Air Force Colonel, an ex-astronaut, an MIT graduate, and a wonderful man. It was a great honor that his death was considered "Fallen in Battle" because he was working for a defense project at the time of this act of terror. 

The chapel of the US Air Force Academy

Charles Edward Jones, wikipedia article:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Jones    

My 2011 blog post on September 11th:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/remembering-september-11th.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Remembering September 11th", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 11, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/09/remembering-september-11th.html: accessed [access date]).