Great message!

We had a speaker in today who graduated HS from Grygla, and was near the bottom of his class of 20 there as a senior. While there he had 2 teachers and the career counselor tell he could not do what he wanted to do- fly F15 fighters for the Air Force. His counselor told him he should be a pig farmer like his dad or work at Marvin Windows- he has been flying F15 fighters now for 4 years and makes 75 grand a year. Soon he will be one of 40 people in the world who flies U2 Spy Planes. His message was simple: work hard to achieve your goals, don't let people tell you what you can't do, and have a plan of how to achieve your goals.

For me the coolest part of the presentation was a video he showed at the end of his presentation. It was a montage of photos from Iraq and Afghanistan that showed soldiers fighting, soldiers wounded, and soldiers being carried in caskets. The most emotional photos, however, were those showing fathers hugging their sons or reuniting with their families. Very powerful. If I find it I will post it. Also, when he was asked why he does this, all the sacrifices and being away from his family, he said it was because as a fighter pilot he gets to help ground troops be safer and help them return to their families. A true patriot and lets us no that there are some good guys left in the world.