"I'll never forget the day that President Kennedy died. I was a student at West Point, traveling with my debate team on an Air Force airplane. Our plane couldn't land because all the airports had shut down, so we had to circle for hours over Lake Champlain. It wasn't until we finally landed that we learned why. I was beside myself with grief -- it was such an awful shock. I had gone to West Point a year after President Kennedy urged us to ask what we could do for our country, and I spent 34 years in the Army trying to answer that call. President Kennedy's challenge still resonates today, and his legacy is kept alive by all who rise to meet it."