“Each generation of Americans calls on its best to come and serve. In today’s all-volunteer military, not many need to answer that call. Those few who do, hue to a higher call,” says AFA president retired Lt. Gen. Bruce “Orville” Wright in his Veterans Day message. “We are all citizens, but only some have earned the privilege to be called veterans.”
The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors wants the service academy to partially reopen its iconic chapel ahead of schedule next year when it sheds the “big white box” that has enclosed it through years of renovations.