{"id":316,"date":"2007-03-04T10:05:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T10:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/03\/04\/its-a-small-wabash-world\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T10:05:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T10:05:53","slug":"its-a-small-wabash-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/03\/04\/its-a-small-wabash-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It's A Small Wabash World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pictured: Bob Wild ’59<\/b>, Commander Karl Cooke ’86,<\/b> USN, Tom Runge, and Richard Bowen, Glee Club director<\/b>, and F-111F 390 (the best war machine ever to take flight, IMHO)<\/span><\/p>\n

So, Bob, Richard and I are standing in front of the F-111F at the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB, OH and up walks Karl who says: "Did I hear you mention Wabash College? I graduated from Wabash." Small world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karl was in the Dayton area for only a couple of weeks attending a course at the base. He is a helicopter pilot in the Navy and just happened to be going through the Museum at the same time as the Glee Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

We caught up-talking about the Glee Club trip, the new FIJI house, and the same thankfulness I have for my Wabash education and how it helped me in the military.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you get a moment, say a little prayer for Karl and his family…and the rest of our folks in uniform. There is no better life than that of a serviceman – but the sacrifices are many. Thank goodness we have young men and women willing to serve and keep all of us, regardless of our political feelings, free.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would give anything to be back in uniform flying….anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grunge<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured: Bob Wild ’59, Commander Karl Cooke ’86, USN, Tom Runge, and Richard Bowen, Glee Club director, and F-111F 390 (the best war machine ever to take flight, IMHO) So, Bob, Richard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}