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It was my best friend.
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Best man in my wedding.
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Roommate.
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Soulmate.
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The fact is, I miss my friend dearly.
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And I always will be near each other.
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And our family is very close.
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It was. It was magic.
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Our relationship endured.
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I can recall one of my favorite memories from when we were midshipmen.
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We always came up with these schemes, things we were going to do.
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He bought a banjo, I bought a guitar.
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We were going to learn how to play music from Dueling Banjos, that song. So.
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And we did.
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So we would always look for the ways to actualize those visions.
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So he had this vision, fly fishing that we were going to catch in a snowstorm,
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wild brook trout, and then cook them and eat them in a snowstorm.
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How is that ever going to happen?
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Well, we actually made that happen
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when we were students at National Defense University.
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He was at the War College.
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I was at the Eisenhower School.
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We took a break from school one day, drove out to the Hazel River
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South Hazel River,
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caught a wild brickies in a snowstorm and actually made it happen.
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That was just an example of how we had a dream.
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We connected with each other. We made it happen.
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We had tried a zillion times and actually did it.
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Bob and I used to talk about this a lot, both when we were midshipmen
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and then as we were growing up as leaders, post
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Naval Academy and learning about ourselves and learning about what it means to be
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a leader, and I think selfless leadership
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is at the top of my list and always being focused on four things.
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And Bob and I talked about this.
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It's a list we made for ourselves, identifying who we wanted to be.
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Work hard. Do your best.
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Make the team strong.
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And if you forget all that stuff, be a good person.
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If you do those four things, especially being a good person
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and we all know what that means.
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Be a good person. Work hard. Do your best.
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Make the team strong and be a good person.
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And you will be a success because the team will be as successful.
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And that was what Bob was all about.
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The team.
