Earlier this month we had a quick trip back to New Jersey for the 2021 MacManus Award. You’ve read about the MacManus Award earlier on these pages. It’s the presentation of a 1911 .45 Auto to the outstanding Rutgers University Reserve Officers Training Corps graduating cadet.
The award honors Captain Colin D. MacManus, a US Army Airborne Ranger who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1967. Good buddies Dennis, Tim, Javier, and I revived the MacManus Award, and it’s a tradition we will keep alive.
You know, I sometimes hear people my age talk about younger folks in a disparaging manner and lament a notion that young people today are somehow less motivated than we were. When I meet people like Joe Hom and his classmates, I know that’s not true. It’s reassuring and invigorating to meet these folks and when I do, I know our future is in good hands.
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Congratulations, Joe, for winning the McManus award back in the day, and for your continued support of the award these many years later. Thanks for your service to our country!
PS Nice to see that Mike B. made it to the ceremony along with you and your lovely wife.
It was an honor to have been invited and in attendance to such a prestige award ceremony. I agree that we continue to be in good hands for our country’s future.
Excellent effort in resurrecting the McManus Award Joe. You done did good. Traditions like this one are well worth continuing.
Thank you for your service and thank you for posting a hopeful view about our country’s young people today. Generation Z might be our country’s saviors as I think Millennials are pretty much a lost cause.
Well done Joe.