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Photos by Susan Robertson, CAP National Headquarters<br />
reached a crescendo during<br />
the 65th<br />
anniversary<br />
Moment of Silence<br />
led by CAP National<br />
Headquarters at<br />
Maxwell Air Force<br />
Base, Ala., and reverberated<br />
in numerous<br />
nationwide celebrations,<br />
as well as proclamations<br />
and other official recognitions<br />
— from the Palm<br />
Springs City Council to the<br />
U.S. Congress.<br />
Cadet Senior Master Sgt.<br />
Julie Sandoval, the National<br />
Capital Wing’s 2006 noncommissioned<br />
officer of the year, and<br />
Cadet Airman Darnell<br />
Willingham assisted with the time<br />
capsule festivities, along with the<br />
Arlington Cadet Squadron’s color<br />
guard. The cadets served as a living,<br />
breathing representation of CAP’s future.<br />
The 18-year-old Sandoval is looking forward to seeing<br />
the time capsule’s life cycle come full circle. The<br />
time capsule will remain on display at CAP National<br />
Col. Len Blascovich, CAP’s national historian, presented a history of CAP’s<br />
wing patches and aeronautical badges for the time capsule— the clear<br />
plexiglass box on his left.<br />
CAP Executive Director Don<br />
Rowland, in his letter to the<br />
future, explains the kind<br />
of legacy he hopes<br />
present-day CAP will<br />
leave behind for future<br />
members.<br />
Headquarters at<br />
Maxwell Air Force<br />
Base, Ala., until<br />
its grand reopening in<br />
2072. By then, Sandoval will be 83.<br />
“In 65 years I hope to be there to see the reopening<br />
of the time capsule, and I'll be able to say I helped<br />
place history in that capsule,” she said. “I am truly grateful<br />
I was given the opportunity to participate in this<br />
great event. It was a privilege to be chosen to receive<br />
these items that will be looked upon with awe in the<br />
future by cadets just like me.”<br />
All participants were honored to take part<br />
in the time capsule’s beginnings.<br />
“I hope future members will learn about<br />
our past, our struggles to grow and the members<br />
who worked diligently to make CAP the<br />
premier volunteer service organization in the<br />
United States,” said Ohio Wing Interim<br />
Commander Lt. Col. Dave Winters.<br />
Time capsule contributions provided a<br />
kaleidoscope of CAP's missions, from sea to<br />
shining sea. The New Hampshire Wing submitted<br />
a photo of the wing’s fleet of seven airplanes,<br />
said wing commander Col. Don<br />
Davidson, “as a reminder for 65 years from<br />
now, when we’re all flying jets on missions<br />
Civil Air Patrol Volunteer 17 May-June 2007
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