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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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