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The United States Air Force Academy Cadet
Chapel
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The Air Force Hymn
Lord, Guard and Guide the Ones Who Fly, Through the great
spaces of the sky; Be with them traversing the air In
darkening storms or sunshine fair.
You who keep with tender might The balanced birds in all
their flight, Lord of the tempered winds, be near, That,
having you, they know no fear. Control their minds with
instinct fit Whene'er adventuring, they quit Firm security
of land; Grant steadfast eye and skillful hand.
Aloft in solitudes of space, Uphold them with your saving
grace. Oh, God, protect the ones who fly Through lonely ways
beneath the sky.
Amen. Mary
C.D. Hamilton, 1915, Quebec: L.M., Henry Baker, 1854
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"It is at once old and new, physical and spiritual, solid and
soaring, of the earth and of outer space." Thus has an
industrial magazine described the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
whose 17 silvery spires soar over 150 feet toward the Colorado
skies, blending with the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. The
Cadet Chapel was envisioned as the crowning architectural
feature of the Air Force Academy campus. The design evolved out
of a desire to achieve a structure symbolic of the religious
aspects of a cadet's life and also to provide chapels respecting
the individuality of the major religious faiths. Each chapel has
its individual architectural characteristics supporting the
religious service for which designed.
Five years of planning and four years of construction went into
the building of the Cadet Chapel. The chapel structure was
designed by Walter A. Netsch, Jr., of the Skidmore, Owings and
Merrill architectural firm, Chicago. The General Commission on
Chaplains in the Armed Services, the National Jewish Welfare
Board and the Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate worked with
leading architects to design suitable furnishings and
ecclesiastical appointments.
Construction was begun on August 28, 1959 by the contractor,
Robert E. McKee, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico and was completed in
the summer of 1963.
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