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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 | |
"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 charcteristics 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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