![]() ![]() WELLS: Garrison Avery graduated from Lincoln High in 2000, and was recruited to attend West Point Academy. And I think that's where he made the connection and he kind of really fell in love with the class. ![]() And so a lot of the things we went through he looked at them from a military standpoint. He was in sky-jumping and so he would talk about how that would relate with freefall and terminal velocity. JIM RYNEARSON (High School Physics Teacher): When we would talk about things in physics like projectiles, he would talk about when you drop something out of a plane how that would be. He attended Lincoln High, where he joined the ROTC, and discovered he had a talent for math and science.ĭecked out in a white lab coat and seated before a computer workstation, high school physics teacher Jim Rynearson described a student who appreciated the link between his studies and his military training. ![]() WELLS: The oldest child of the family, Garrison grew up with two brothers and a sister. SUE AVERY (Mother): And then we saw that through his high school years and through West Point, the same idea, making his way, looking at his options, and then just striving for that goal. His mother Sue says even when he was very young, he didn't have fleeting ideas, he had specific, attainable goals. His uncle currently serves in the Pentagon as a chaplain.Īvery began talking about going into the Armed Forces when he was only 11, and he followed through on that plan. One grandfather served 27-years in the Air Force, and the other was a medic at the end of World War II. Growing up in Lincoln, Garrison Avery's life was, as his father puts it, fairly saturated with the military. Nebraska Public Radio's Martin Wells has this remembrance. He was killed in a roadside bomb attack, along with two other soldiers in Baghdad on February 1. Today at the West Point Military Academy, a funeral is being held for Army 1st Lt. ![]()
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