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ahameD (from Page 6) dire situations and most of all she showed and the people around you with positivity.” airfielD (from Page 3)
me what legacy meant. My mother would Sheriff continues his mother’s impact by
proudly because it symbolizes all the sup- always show me that your legacy doesn’t mentoring Sailors, striving to be a leader created Air Force and was tapped
port that I was given during the long tough mean anything if it doesn’t positively af- and role model for others in the African- by President Harry S. Truman to
days away from family and friends, all fect others.” American community so diversity can keep help draft the service’s desegre-
the mentoring that people took the time During a PMRF diversity committee event moving forward. gation plan.
to provide for me, all the knowledge and to honor Black History Month, Sheriff, a “To me, honoring the past, securing Davis’ life served as an ex-
experiences that I poured into Sailors, and guest speaker, told the audience that dur- the future means that we can’t afford to ample of the power of persever-
a visual reminder for me of how proud my ing his mother’s funeral service, he learned go backwards,” said Sheriff. “We have to ance, courage, character and
mother was of me, even though she never the true meaning of legacy. Sheriff and his build on the things that our brave men extraordinary competence, Air
had the opportunity to see me in my khakis siblings arrived at the service expecting only and women fought and died for. We have Force Chief of Staff Gen. David
because she unexpectedly died a month family to attend but were amazed by the to vote! We have to continue to fight for L. Goldfein said at the naming
before the results came out.” amount of people from the community who racial equality. We must continue to knock ceremony.
Sheriff’s mother was an important role showed up. It was at this event where they down walls and press forward. I apply this “Some have had to bear a
model for him, and had a large impact on realized the impact of their mother’s legacy. to both the way that I lead and how I live heavier burden than others to
the man he is today. Marjorie Sheriff worked for the school dis- my own life. I try to be the example that I teach us all what right looks
“I know it sounds cliché, but my mother trict and often was the first friendly face talk about. Be the one out there trying to like,” Goldfein said. “Today, we
was truly the most influential person in people would see every day. make a difference for our future. Whether celebrate one of these men.”
my life,” said Sheriff. “She showed me how “That is when I learned that legacy isn’t it’s through volunteering, financially sup- Davis’ great-nephew, Douglas
to love, to be proud of who and what I am. your family name,” said Sheriff. “Your porting different businesses or just doing Melville, said he would always
She taught me how to persevere in the most legacy is when you affect your community more than just simply talking.” stress the importance of mak-
ing the world a better place. “He
would always say, ‘Doug if you
can only stand tall by requiring
someone to sit on their knees, you
are the problem.’”
Davis died July 4, 2002, at 89
and is buried with his wife, Ag-
atha, in Arlington National Cem-
etery in Arlington, Virginia. In
2017, the U.S. Military Academy
named a barracks after Davis.
The academy’s Airmanship
Programs — soaring, parachut-
ing and powered flight — operate
out of the airfield, which opened
in 1974.
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