Unfortunately, AFASW is not able to host our Annual AFASW Memorial Ceremony at the Air Force Memorial, due to construction.
Normally, our AFASW Memorial Ceremony coincides with the Air Force Academy Graduation, scheduled for May 29, 2025. As we honor those Graduates who have Departed, we welcome new Graduates to the Long Blue Line.
Instead, we offer this rememberance. We have lost 160 Graduates from May 2024 through May 2025.
ALMA MATER
Here's a toast to the host
Of those who love the vastness of the sky,
To a friend we send a message
of his brother men who fly.
We drink to those who gave their all of old,
Then, down we roar to score
the rainbow's pot of gold.
A toast to the host of men we boast
the U.S. Air Force!
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.
Thou who dost keep with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight,
Thou of the tempered winds, be near,
That, having thee, they know no fear.
Control their minds with instinct fit
What time, adventuring, they quit
The firm security of land;
Grant steadfast eye and skillful hand.
Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with Thy saving grace.
O God, protect the ones who fly
Thru lonely ways beneath the sky.