Sherilyn Miller:  

Life Hi, fellow classmates! I'm sure many of you have thought I'd dropped off the face of the earth; but I've simply been very busy between my Air Force career and married life, in which Mark and I celebrated our 25th anniversary in Oct 2010. Now that I'm retired (Captain) I have a little more time, but not a lot, because I enjoy many voluntary activities; namely, singing in my Church's Sanctuary Choir (our choir alone is 100 members strong and last year we were invited to go on tour throughout Scotland and England at many of the Cathedrals and abbeys there) On our last day before returning home, we were in London and literally two blocks from where the bus was blown up, in additon to the other bombings thruout the city. So I sort of have an idea of what NYC went thru on 9/11. My husband was a Senior Federal Agent with U.S. Customs, and obviously had more than his share of stress. My years in the Air Force (1979 - 1990) were among the best in my life. My main career field ended up as a Protocol Officer, and I had the honor and priviledge to meet the very top of the list of VIPs. When I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB, near Santa Barbara, CA, in the '80s, I provided protocol support from anyone from President and Nancy Reagan at his "Western White House", to escorting many VIPs, elected officials, and countless general or flag-ranking officers. My all time favorite experience is when I got to plan the visit and escort Charlton and Mrs Heston (my all time favorite actor). And I was at Vandenberg at a very exciting time: the first launches of the MX missile, to the development of the Western Launch Site of the Space Shuttle. I was transferred to Maxwell AFB, AL, as Chief of Protocol in the Fall of 1985. Of course just a few short months after this, the Challenger Disaster occurred, which changed the dyna...Expand for more