West Point grad’s charity provides college grants to Gold Star families
By Meghann Myers
Jul 12, 08:59 AM
David Kim, a West Point graduate, co-founded the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty. He is Military Times' 2022 Veteran of the Year. (Weston Scott/Staff)
David Kim was a year out of West Point when he deployed to Panama in 1989. On the first night of Operation Just Cause, just a few days before Christmas, a member of his battalion was shot and killed.
A few years later he was out of the Army and on his way to Harvard Business School, but that experience would go on to color the rest of his life.
“It obviously hit all of us pretty hard,” Kim told Military Times.
Sgt. William Delaney Gibbs was just 21 years old when he died, and his wife was pregnant with a daughter, due in March of 1990.
“And so that’s what stuck with me,” he said. “I was going to take care of that little girl — and thousands of kids like her.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/07/12/west-point-grads-charity-provides-college-grants-to-gold-star-families/
