West Point
5th Annual Service Academies Global Summit
Last week I flew to Washington, D. C. and drove to the Westin Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland, to attend the 5th annual Service Academies Global Summit. I was going to represent RallyPoint and also to speak. The conference began with a reception. Attending the Summit were graduates and current students of all of the nation’s […]
2019 Distinguished Graduate Awards Ceremony at West Point
This week we went to my alma mater West Point to participate in the annual Alumni Review and the 2019 Distinguished Graduate Award ceremony. Receiving West Point’s Distinguished Graduate Award in 2017 was the greatest honor of my life. I have tried to live a life of service, guided by the ideals of West Point […]
Ulysses S. Grant Statue Dedication at West Point
Thursday morning Diane and I were up before 6 a.m. I was suffering a cold, so I slept in rather than exercised. Plus, I wanted to get ready for the day’s events. We went down to the Washington Room of the Thayer Hotel, where we met Claudia Phillips, who is Director of Events for the […]
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13th Annual Stand Up for Heroes
It was an honor for both Diane and I to attend the 13th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event organized by the Bob Woodruff Foundation in the Hulu Theater of Madison Square Garden in New York City November 4, 2019. I also attended the Leadership Council meeting of the Bob Woodruff Foundation that morning, kindly hosted […]
Bob McDonald VA Portrait Unveiling
We walked over to the VA headquarters building before 4 p.m. Once we walked in the door, Diane and I were inundated with our former colleagues and friends. We introduced our daughter Jenny and her husband Scott Rowland. First it was the members of Protocol, then our photographers, then our Special Agents, and then office […]
National Veterans Resource Center Tour
Thursday morning Ray Toenniessen, Associate Vice President of IVMF, picked me up and took me to the new National Veterans Resource Center, a new building on the Syracuse campus that will house IVMF and its resources. It is a beautiful new building, funded primarily by a donation by Dan D’Aniello, Co-Founder of Carlyle and Chair […]