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2. Johathon Daniels was a friend of mine

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 15, 2015, 09:45 PM

Aug 2015

We were ushers at the cadet chapel at the Virginia Military Institute. Jon was our class valedictorian. I remember his closing remark, "I wish you the joy of a purposeful life". At the time, he was suspended between a philosophy of secular humanism and religion. while in graduate school in English (Danforth Scholarship as i remember), he chose religion and entered an Episcopal Seminary. While in the seminary, he answered Martin Luther King's call to come to the south.

http://admissions.vmi.edu/jonathan-daniels-61/

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Many touched by Jonathan Daniels� life and legacy return to Alabama to remember [View all] struggle4progress Aug 2015 OP

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