I see you attended the Air Force Academy. I used to live there. I lived in Pine Valley, the base commissary was located atop of the hill which separated Pine Valley from Douglas Valley about the time they had just completed the multi-domination Chapel. Loved Colorado Springs.
Were you aware that there was a small cave near the Academy entrance gate? It wasn't a big cave. We thought we would build a little fire in there one winter day by using leaves. The guy I was with was too slow existing the small opening so I pushed him out. as the cavern filled with smoke. Needless to say as we were leaving the base Fire Dept. could be heard enroute.
There was an old abandoned NCO Club. When they were demolishing it, they found that a rattlesnake den was underneath it, containing 10s of thousands of rattlesnakes. They ended up dynamiting it.
JFK gave the commencement speech in 1963. I saw him but from afar, so I couldn't really seem him clearly. Shorty after we move to Davis Monthan. That Nov. I was operating the projector for a film be shown to the class, when the teacher came into the room announcing that President Kennedy had just been shot. I didn't think much of it, because it was inconceivable to me that he would die, because he was the President of the U.S.
No, I wasn’t aware of a cave. Which entrance was it near, north or south?