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The United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
| 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 |
The Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel pictured above has 17 silvery
spires soaring 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 charcteristics supporting the religious
service for which it was 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 located in 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 began 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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