FLEX TIME THE OTHER WES MOORE
‘Make Sure That It Mattered’ By Mike Kennedy ’99
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YING OF cancer, Colonel Billy G. Murphy stepped forward to give what would be his farewell address to
the student body at Valley Forge Military College in 1996. To this day, then cadet Wes Moore hasn’t forgotten Murphy’s words. “He explained that when it’s time for you to leave here, whether it’s time to leave this school, this job, this neighborhood — or when it’s time to leave this planet — make sure that it mattered that you were ever even here,” Moore recalled.
“The point is not simply a diploma. The point is having a greater and lasting understanding of who it is you’re supposed to fight for — who this degree is going to matter to.” – WES MOORE
In a September visit to the Upper School, Moore — Rhodes Scholar, paratrooper and captain in the U.S. Army, White House Fellow to then Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice, and author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Other Wes Moore — asked all in his audience to do the same.
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