Oxon Hill reprise

[wombat_socho]

I don't think I'd been back to my old high school since I graduated in 1977. Why would I? I didn't feel any great attachment to it while I was there, and in fact turned in paperwork for a transfer to Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt for what would have been my senior year. (It was turned down, of course.) I was dating a girl from

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I didn't attend...but...

[anonymous]

while I do have tons of memories from my years at OHHS and graduating in 1976, you now have made me wonder just how many after us know the history behind those temporary classrooms that housed the AFJROTC 11th Squadron. I was not a member of the program, but I lived every day of it from its beginning until 1978. It would have been extremely sad for me to go and not see them standing out there as well...now I am glad I didn't have to go through those emotions Saturday. I can remember what used to be out there, who started the program, what he gave to the students of OHHS and the memories he helped create from Homecomings to Military Balls and Reviews, The Helmsmen, Senior OC Trips, the bands hired to play all of the dances at the school. He was more than a teacher...he was a father, a confidant, an advisor, a rescuer to any student who needed him.

So if you ever travel to Ocean City, MD...when you go through the town of Berlin east bound or you are headed home just before Berlin...there's a cemetery on the west bound side of Route 50 - Sunset Memorial Gardens - blow your horn and holler "HEY SARGE!" he's right there close to the road so he can see all of us drive by and wave whenever we're in town.

Me...I visit as often as I can and tell him..."Yes Dad...everyone still thinks of you...you are a part of their Clipper memories"

Re: I didn't attend...but...

[wombat_socho]

Indeed, after a few years of active duty, I had a lot more respect and appreciation for your Dad than I did as a surly teenager wearing Air Force blue. But I'm pretty sure he knows.